Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/200362 
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Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
ISER Working Paper Series No. 2017-13
Publisher: 
University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), Colchester
Abstract: 
This paper uses the staggered implementation of a legal change in inheritance law in India to estimate the effect of women's improved access to inheritance on violence against women. I find that the aggregate rate of violence against women ( including female suicides) fell. This fall is due to changes in police-reported violence as well as in female mortality. The law did not change male mortality or other forms of non-gender based crime. Further, at the individual level I find that spouses eligible for inheritance are 17 percent less likely to be victims of domestic violence. These findings are explained by an improvement in marriage market negotiations and this led to women marrying partners that consume less alcohol.
Subjects: 
Domestic Violence
Property Rights
Intra-household Distribution
Marriage Market
JEL: 
J12
J16
K42
O15
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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