Empowering Women: Inheritance Rights and Female Education in India

Sanchari Roy

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Abstract: This paper examines the impact of property inheritance rights on education of women. Using plausibly exogenous variation created by amendments to female inheritance laws in India, I nd that exposure to improved inheritance rights increased mean female educational attainment by approximately one additional year. I also provide suggestive evidence that the mechanism behind such an e ect may be explained by the existence of complementarity between female inheritance rights and education in the context of household property management rather than by a relaxation of the household budget constraint owing to reduction in dowry payments following the reform.

Keywords: Property rights; education; gender; dowry (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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