ABSTRACT

This paper analyzes the intergenerational effects following the positive changes in women’s inheritance rights in India. Using the Indian Human Development Survey data for rural India and a difference-in-differences strategy, we find that the property rights reform significantly empowered women through increased education. However, we find no intergenerational effect of the reform on children’s education. We explore two potential mechanisms to explain these results: the role of status conflict among spouses and that of a child’s birth-order and gender. Given that a woman’s bargaining power may depend on her relative position to that of her husband, we investigate this channel and find a significant decrease in children’s education in households where fathers are less educated than mothers. Accounting for a child’s birth-order and gender, we find no evidence of son-preference through the education channel.

摘要

本文分析了印度妇女继承权发生积极变化后的代际效应。使用印度农村地区的印度人类发展调查数据和差异化战略，我们发现产权改革通过增加教育显着增强了妇女的权能。然而，我们没有发现改革对儿童教育的代际影响。我们探索了两种可能的机制来解释这些结果：配偶之间地位冲突的作用以及孩子的出生顺序和性别的作用。鉴于女性的议价能力可能取决于她与丈夫的相对地位，我们调查了这个渠道，发现在父亲受教育程度低于母亲的家庭中，孩子的教育显着下降。考虑到孩子的出生顺序和性别，