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Deininger, Klaus; Goyal, Aparajita; Nagarajan, Hari – Journal of Human Resources, 2013
We use inheritance patterns over three generations of individuals to assess the impact of changes in the Hindu Succession Act that grant daughters equal coparcenary birth rights in joint family property that were denied to daughters in the past. We show that the amendment significantly increased daughters' likelihood to inherit land, but that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Real Estate, Daughters, Death