Property Rights and Gender Bias: Evidence from Land Reform in West Bengal
Author
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Bhalotra, Sonia
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Mookherjee, Dilip
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Chakravarty, Abhishek
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Pino Emhart, Francisco
Admission date
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2017-04-04T20:12:43Z
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2017-04-04T20:12:43Z
Publication date
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2016
Cita de ítem
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Serie Documentos de Trabajo No. 422, pp. 1 - 55, Mayo, 2016
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https://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/143473
Abstract
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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.
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Lenguage
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en
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Publisher
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Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios