Bhalotra, Sonia R and Chakravarty, Abhishek and Mookherjee, Dilip and Pino, Francisco J Property Rights and Gender Bias: Evidence from Land Reform in West Bengal. [UNSPECIFIED]
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Abstract
While land reforms are typically pursued in order to raise productivity and reduce inequality across households, an unintended consequence may be increased within-household gender inequality. We analyse a tenancy registration programme in West Bengal, and find that it increased child survival and reduced fertility. However, we also find that it intensified son preference in families without a first-born son to inherit the land title. These families exhibit no reduction in fertility, an increase in the probability that a subsequent birth is male, and a substantial increase in the survival advantage of subsequent sons over daughters.
| Item Type: | UNSPECIFIED |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | I14, I24, J71, O15, sex ratio, infant mortality, gender, property rights, land reform, fertility |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Institute for Social and Economic Research |
| Depositing User: | Abhishek Chakravarty |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Jun 2016 12:35 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Aug 2017 17:26 |
| URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/16845 |
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