Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/245976 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Papers of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods No. 2021/13
Publisher: 
Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn
Abstract: 
Often, religion, law and tradition co-evolve. Religious precepts shape social practice, which translates into law. Yet this harmony is not universal. The Sharia guarantees daughters their share in the family estate. Yet in Pakistan, this rule clashes with tradition. While the country was jointly governed with (mainly Hindu) India, it had been customary that the entire estate goes to the eldest son. Combining a survey with a lab in the field experiment, we show that this is still the descriptive and the injunctive norm. Yet participants have a strong preference for the conflict to be dissolved by legislative intervention.
Subjects: 
religious norm
legal rule
descriptive and injunctive social norm
inheritance
gender discrimination
Sharia
experiment
JEL: 
C91
C93
D01
D15
D31
D63
J16
K00
O12
O53
R22
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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