摘要:This research was supported by the Government of Japan, the United Kingdom's Department for International Development, and the United States Agency for International Development, Office of Women in Development, Grant No. FAO-0100-G- 00-5020-00, on "Strengthening Development Policy through Gender Analysis: An Integrated Multicountry Research Program." We would like to thank S. Suyanto and Novi Khususiyah for implementing the inheritance survey in Western Sumatra, Ellen Payongayong for excellent research assistance, and Jonna Estudillo and seminar participants at IFPRI and Syracuse University for helpful comments. All errors and omissions are ours.