"During an 18 December 2006 telephone interview, the first secretary of the Embassy of Burundi in Ottawa stated that the 18 July 2000 law on the reform of the nationality code is still in force and that it deals with Burundian citizenship. The following is an English translation, provided by the Translation Bureau of the Department of Public Works and Government Services of Canada, of the full text of law 1/013 of 18 July 2000 on the reform of the nationality code (Loi No 1/013 du 18 juillet 2000 portant réforme du code de la nationalité), which addresses the issues […]
Full citation: Harari, M., (2016). Women’s inheritance rights and bargaining power: evidence from Kenya. The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
This is a data source for the Research Consortium's Inheritance Rights for Daughters Infographic – Greater educational attainment, Increase in educational attainment.
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)
This is a data source for the Research Consortium's Inheritance Rights for Daughters Infographic – Greater educational attainment, Increase in educational attainment.
Full citation: Roy, S. (2015). Empowering women? Inheritance rights, female education and dowry payments in India. Journal of Development Economics 114: 233-51.
This is a data source for the Research Consortium's Inheritance Rights for Daughters Infographic – Greater educational attainment.
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 […]
This is a data source for the Research Consortium's Inheritance Rights for Daughters Infographic – Greater educational attainment.
Full citation: Roy, S. (2008), Female Empowerment Through Inheritance Rights: Evidence from India, Department of Economics, London School of Economics, September 6, 2008.
