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This study examined the impact of the state‐level inheritance rights reforms in India, which granted women the right to inherit joint family property, on the years of education and real wages of female wage earners. The reforms targeted Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, and Buddhists. Data from seven rounds of the Employment and Unemployment Survey (1983–2011/2012) from the Indian National Sample Survey were analyzed using difference‐in‐differences (DID). The treatment group comprised women who lived in the four reformed states (Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, and Maharashtra) and were young at the time of the reforms. Our findings demonstrate that within the subsample of female regular workers, the increase in years of education for the women exposed to the reforms was not statistically significant. Nevertheless, this group experienced a wage increase of around 15% after controlling for their education levels. This increase may be attributed to improvements in the quality of human capital that are not directly observable in the data. Placebo regression with a sample of other religious groups (Muslims and Christians) and DID with propensity score matching confirmed the robustness of our results. Nevertheless, the impact of the reform on the casual wage laborer remains ambiguous.

DOI： 10.1111/rode.13216

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Using five-period repeated cross-sectional data from the Indian National Family Health Survey, this study examines the impact of inheritance rights reforms on the human capital of Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, and Buddhists. The results demonstrate that, in the reform states, Hindu, Sikh, Jain, and Buddhist daughters of landholding household heads (the treatment group) improved their human capital indicators of education (years of education) and their health status (underweight and BMI z-score). There is also some indication that their reading habits might have improved compared to the control group. In contrast, the human capital indicators of the placebo group—Muslims and Christians, who share similar characteristics with the treatment group but were not subject to the reform—showed no clear improvements. Estimates based on reform timing show that Karnataka and Maharashtra, which were reformed in 1994, have contributed the most to the main result. The results provide evidence for the human capital-enhancing impact of inheritance reforms for women.

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Inter-Religious Wage Differentials in India: A Focus on Socially Vulnerable Groups

DOI： 10.11479/asianstudies.as24.a02

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The Hindu Succession Amendment Act and Education of Hindu Women in India : An Analysis Using the National Family Health Survey

DOI： 10.11384/jjasas.2019.47

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Venue：Punjab Agricultural University   Country：India  

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