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Suicide and Property Rights in India.

by Siwan Anderson and Garance Genicot BREAD Working Paper No. 353, 2012 This paper studies the impact of female property rights on male and female suicide rates in India. Using state level variation in legal changes to women’s property rights, we show that better property rights for women are associated with a decrease in the [...]

Women’s property, mobility, and decisionmaking :Evidence from rural Karnataka, India

by Hema Swaminathan; Rahul Lahoti and J Y Suchitra IFPRI Discussion Paper No.1188, June 2012 Recent research has shown that a substantial gap exists in asset ownership between men and women. In this paper, we examine the impact of rural women’s property ownership on their mobility and autonomy in decisionmaking. The results are based on [...]

Security of Property Rights for Whom?

Terra Lawson-Remer Working Paper No. 2011/83 Recent research regarding property rights and economic development often treats property rights security in a country as homogeneous, although protecting the private entitlements of some can entail preventing others from claiming and controlling those same resources. This one-dimensional conception of property rights ignores the significant variation in the risk [...]

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