Inheritance Laws and Female
Entrepreneurship
Access to Collateral
Financial Security and Risk-Taking
Economic Agency and Autonomy
Empirical Evidence
Bridging the Wealth Gap
Mechanism For Women
Empowerment
Direct Financial Empowerment and
Collateral Access
1. The Collateral Requirement
2. Liquidity Constraint Relaxation
3. Scale and Scope of Business
Mechanism For
Women
Empowerment
Enhanced Economic Agency and Bargaining Power
1. Increased Household Bargaining Power
2. Mitigation of Risk and Vulnerability
3. Reduced Dependence and Autonomy
Mechanism For Women
Empowerment
Interacting with Social Norms
and Cultural Resistance
• 1. Circumvention of the Law
• 2. Implementation Gaps
• 3. Positive Second-Generation
Effects
Policy Implications
1. Universal Legal
Equality
2. Enforcement and
Awareness
3. Joint Titling