Empowering Women Through Equal Land Rights : Experimental Evidence From Rural Uganda
Traditional customary land tenure systems often limit women’s land rights in Sub-Saharan Africa.In an ongoing experiment in rural Uganda, we offered households fully-subsidized land titles and basic information about the benefits of land titling.Providing additional gender information and making the offer conditional on female co-tilting raised the take up of joint titles to about 76 percent and 89 percent, respectively, without dampening overall demand for titling
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2019
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Authors: | Cherchi, Ludovica ; Goldstein, Markus ; Gruver, Ariel ; Habyarimana, James ; Montalvao, Joao ; O'Sullivan, Michael ; Udry, Chris |
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2019: World Bank, Washington, DC |
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freely available
Extent: | 1 Online-Ressource |
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Series: | Gender Innovation Lab Policy Brief ; No. 33 |
Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Notes: | Africa Uganda English |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012566816
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