TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Bhalotra, Sonia R.
AU  - Chakravarty, Abhishek
AU  - Mookherjee, Dilip
AU  - Pino, Francisco J.
        TI  - Property Rights and Gender Bias: Evidence from Land Reform in West Bengal
        PY  - 2016/May/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 9930
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp9930
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - property rights
KW  - gender
KW  - land reform
KW  - infant mortality
KW  - fertility
KW  - sex ratio
        ER  -