%0 Report
        %A Bhalotra, Sonia R.
%A Chakravarty, Abhishek
%A Mookherjee, Dilip
%A Pino, Francisco J.
        %T Property Rights and Gender Bias: Evidence from Land Reform in West Bengal
        %D 2016
        %8 2016 May
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 9930
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp9930
        %X 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.
        %K property rights
%K gender
%K land reform
%K infant mortality
%K fertility
%K sex ratio