Inheritance Rights

Inheritance Rights is a legal entitlement determining the claim of individuals, particularly women, to receive property, assets, or titles from a deceased person according to statutory, customary, or religious laws, distinguished within feminist jurisprudence by its role in reproducing or challenging patriarchal structures in the distribution of familial wealth.

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Publications

17.5K

Citations

640

Authors

335

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

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Feminist JurisprudenceRights Of Women

Children

Agricultural Inheritance RightsCitizenship StudiesCustomary Inheritance LawEqual InheritanceGender Discrimination In InheritanceInheritance ReformLegal Pluralism In InheritancePatriarchal Inheritance NormsProperty Rights Of DaughtersReligious Inheritance Law

Publications

454

The Inheritance of Inequality

Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis · The Journal of Economic Perspectives · 2002 · 941 citations · Full text

Social Sciences, Economics, Sociology +6

The Genotype Conception of Heredity

Wolfgang Johannsen · The American Naturalist · 1911 · 642 citations

Life Sciences, Biology, Genetics +7

On the Long-Run Evolution of Inheritance: France 1820–2050 *

Thomas Piketty · The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 2011 · 375 citations

Social Sciences, Economics, History +15

Inheritance Law and Investment in Family Firms

Andrew Ellul, Marco Pagano, Fausto Panunzi · American Economic Review · 2010 · 225 citations

Business, Corporate Governance, Finance +12

Property rights and the gender distribution of wealth in Ecuador, Ghana and India

Carmen Diana Deere, Abena D. Oduro, Hema Swaminathan et al. · The Journal of Economic Inequality · 2013 · 210 citations

Social Sciences, Economics, Gender Studies +14

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Authors

640

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David S. Powers
Cornell University, United States
6 publications · 213 citations
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Sanchari Roy
RWTH Aachen University, Germany
5 publications · 403 citations
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Agnes Quisumbing
International Food Policy Research Institute, United States
5 publications · 210 citations
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Carole Shammas
University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, United States
5 publications · 214 citations
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Elizabeth Cooper
Simon Fraser University, Canada
4 publications · 115 citations
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Institutions

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SSRN Electronic Journal
Repository · 16 publications · 552 citations
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Journal of Family History
9 publications · 294 citations
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Choice Reviews Online
CRO · 8 publications · 507 citations
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Islamic Law and Society
6 publications · 173 citations
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The American Historical Review
AHR · 5 publications · 251 citations
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