TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Hossain, Md Shahadath
AU  - Nikolov, Plamen
        TI  - Entitled to Property: How Breaking the Gender Barrier Improves Child Health in India
        PY  - 2023/May/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 16193
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp16193
        AB  - Non-unitary household models suggest that enhancing women's bargaining power can influence child health, a crucial determinant of human capital and economic standing throughout adulthood. We examine the effects of a policy shift, the Hindu Succession Act Amendment (HSAA), which granted inheritance rights to unmarried women in India, on child health. 
Our findings indicate that the HSAA improved children's height and weight. Furthermore, we uncover evidence supporting a mechanism whereby the policy bolstered women's intra-household bargaining power, resulting in downstream benefits through enhanced parental care for children and improved child health. These results emphasize that children fare better when mothers control a larger share of family resources. Policies empowering women can yield additional positive externalities for children's human capital 

        KW  - human capital
KW  - height
KW  - bargaining
KW  - parental investments
KW  - developing countries
KW  - India
        ER  -