The practice of dowry in India has become identified as the primary cause of women's oppression. It sets families apart in the fight over dowry payments and results in violence against daughters including infanticide. Daughter's get their share of inheritance at the time of marriage under traditional Hindu law. The Dowry Prohibition Act outlaws this practice. On the other hand, customary la...

background: essential hypertension tends to a familial mode. its pattern of inheritance is heterogeneous, but the frequencies of different mode of inheritance vary in different populations. determining of the mode of inheritance in each family is the basic information that is needed for the risk estimation in those family members. determination of pattern of inheritance in families with at leas...

enzyme electrophoresis was used to measure genetic variation within, and divergence among, three generations of recently bred synthetic alfalfa generations (syn1, syn2, and syn3) originating from a polycross of 12 selected parents and several cultivars. three isozyme loci, exhibiting tetrasomic inheritance in 10-day seedlings, were detected from five enzymatic systems analyzed by polyacryla...

This paper explores the effects of different descent rules on human capital accumulation. In a context where parents are constrained in the possibility of passing land on to their children (e.g., because it is considered property of the extended family, or clan), investment in their children’s human capital might not be optimal. We focus on matrilineal inheritance rules and exploit a policy exp...

Abstract In the atoll society of Tokelau, intergenerational succession has occurred since approximately 1925 without a concomitant exchange enduring material objects, with exception land. The article explores how significant increase in wealth, including more permanent housing, and ultimate threat represented by climate change, that losing land altogether, affects transfer goods relationship pa...

In this paper we will give a formal description of succession rules in terms of linear operators satisfying certain conditions. This representation allows us to introduce a system of well-deened operations into the set of succession rules and then to tackle problems of combinato-rial enumeration simply by using operators instead of generating functions. Finally we will suggest several open prob...