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Women's Inheritance Rights And Intergenerational Transmission Of Resources In India, Klaus Deininger, Aparajita Goyal, Hari Nagarajan
Women's Inheritance Rights And Intergenerational Transmission Of Resources In India, Klaus Deininger, Aparajita Goyal, Hari Nagarajan
Aparajita Goyal
We use inheritance patterns over three generations of individuals to assess the impact of changes in the Hindu Succession Act that grant daughters equal coparcenary birth rights in joint family property that were denied to daughters in the past. We show that the amendment significantly increased daughters’ likelihood to inherit land, but that even after the amendment, substantial bias persists. Our results also indicate a robust increase in educational attainment of daughters, suggesting an alternative channel of wealth transfer.
Can Wrongful Death Damages Recovered By A Married Person Be Classified As The Recipient's Separate Property Under California Law?, William A. Reppy Jr.
Can Wrongful Death Damages Recovered By A Married Person Be Classified As The Recipient's Separate Property Under California Law?, William A. Reppy Jr.
William A Reppy Jr.
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Close Encounters Of The Deadly Kind: Gender, Migration, And Border (In)Security, Anna O. Oleary
Close Encounters Of The Deadly Kind: Gender, Migration, And Border (In)Security, Anna O. Oleary
Anna Ochoa OLeary
In this article I discuss some of the findings of my study of migrant women temporarily suspended in the “intersection” of diametrically opposed processes: those posed by border enforcement measures and those posed by transnational mobility. A pressing issue that emerged from this research was how close women come to encountering death as they skirt around the border wall to cross without authorization into the U.S. Their testimonies shed light on how the intersection of contradictory processes contributes to a humanitarian crisis on the U.S.-Mexico border in which the likelihood of death is increasingly present.
Bereavement In The Modern Western World, David San Filippo Ph.D.
Bereavement In The Modern Western World, David San Filippo Ph.D.
David San Filippo Ph.D.
Bereavement is the process of suffering that follows the loss of a living being that is significant to someone. When one suffers, she or he has to endure an unpleasant experience, in the case of bereavement, the loss of something special to the person. This loss most often is a loved one but could also include the loss of a pet, relationship, or physical or mental capability. This state of suffering is called grief. In describing his grief, C. S. Lewis stated, after the loss of his wife, “No one ever told me that grief felt so much like fear. …