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Shackled to the Soil? Inherited Land, Birth Order, and Labor Mobility

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  • A. Nilesh Fernando

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The inheritance of wealth promotes occupational choice, but may restrict it where its use is constrained by limited markets and cultural norms. This work investigates the effects of inheriting agricultural land in rural India and finds that while larger inheritances, on average, increase future household consumption, firstborn sons do not experience these gains. For firstborns, inheriting land reduces migration and entry into nonagricultural work. In contrast, inheriting land does not influence occupational choice or migration for latter-born sons. I attribute these differences, in part, to a cultural norm of parental support incumbent on firstborns and its interaction with inherited land.

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  • A. Nilesh Fernando, 2022. "Shackled to the Soil? Inherited Land, Birth Order, and Labor Mobility," Journal of Human Resources, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 57(2), pages 491-524.
    • Handle: RePEc:uwp:jhriss:v:57:y:2022:i:2:p:491-524
    Note: DOI: 10.3368/jhr.57.2.0219-10014R2
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    Cited by:

    1. Raahil Madhok & Frederik Noack & Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, 2022. "Rural-Urban Migration and the Re-organization of Agriculture," Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers 2349, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University.
    2. Liu, Jhih-Yun, 2023. "The Dust Bowl and Occupational Persistence in Agriculture," 2023 Annual Meeting, July 23-25, Washington D.C. 335779, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
    3. Nicholas Ryan & Anant Sudarshan, 2020. "Rationing the Commons," Working Papers 2020-93, Becker Friedman Institute for Research In Economics.

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    JEL classification:

    • O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
    • C26 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Instrumental Variables (IV) Estimation
    • J62 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Job, Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion

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