A Resource Equity Research Paper
Record Country: India
Exploring Gendered Wellbeing in Slum Resettlement Project in Odisha, India [Final Report]
Orissa Bhoodan and Gramdan Act
This act establishes provisions for the acquisition of lands by way of donation, for distribution to the landless persons, or for a community purpose. *Please note that the state of Orissa formally changed its name to Odisha in 2011.*
Powerful Women: Does Exposure Reduce Bias?
Women’s Legal Empowerment: Lessons Learned from Community-based Activities
Strategies to Get Gender onto the Agenda of the “Land Grab” Debate
Full citation: Daley, E., "Strategies to Get Gender onto the Agenda of the 'Land Grab' Debate," ILC POLICY BRIEF (March 2011).
Gender Inequality in Inheritance Laws: The Case of Agricultural Land in India
A Landesa paper that "explores the legal complexities related to inheritance of agricultural land by women in India."
From Mother to Daughter: Does Equal Inheritance Property Laws Reform Improve Female Labor Supply and Educational Attainments in India?
Full citation: Sapkal, R. (2016). From Mother to Daughter: Does Equal Inheritance Property Laws Reform Improve Female Labor Supply and Educational Attainments in India?. Asian Journal of Law and Economics, 8(1)
Empowering women? Inheritance rights, female education and dowry payments in India
Full citation: Roy, S. (2015). Empowering women? Inheritance rights, female education and dowry payments in India. Journal of Development Economics 114: 233-51.
Women’s Inheritance Rights and Intergenerational Transmission of Resources in India
Full citation: Deininger, K., Goyal, A. and Nagarajan, H., "Women's Inheritance Rights and Intergenerational Transmission of Resources in India," 46 THE JOURNAL OF HUMAN RESOUCES 2 (2013). – Using inheritance patterns over three generations of individuals, this study assesses the impact of changes in the Hindu Succession Act, which grant daughters equal coparcenary birth rights in joint family property, that were denied to daughters in the past. The study shows that the amendment significantly increased daughters’ likelihood to inherit land, but that even after the amendment, substantial bias persists. There were no detectable changes before the legal amendment, with a […]
Female Empowerment Through Inheritance Rights: Evidence from India
Full citation: Roy, S. (2008), Female Empowerment Through Inheritance Rights: Evidence from India, Department of Economics, London School of Economics, September 6, 2008.