Is Women's Ownership of Land a Panacea in Developing Countries? Evidence from Land-Owning Farm Households in Malawi
Our analysis of a rich representative household survey for Malawi, where patrilineal and matrilineal institutions coexist, suggests that (a) in matrilineal societies the likelihood of cash crop cultivation by a household increases with the extent of land owned (or de facto controlled) by males, and (b) and cultivation of cash crops increases household welfare. The policy implication is that facilitating female ownership of assets through informal and formal institutions does not, on its own, increase welfare, if women do not have access to complementary resources that are needed to generate income from those assets.
Year of publication: |
2014
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Authors: | Bhaumik, Sumon K. ; Dimova, Ralitza ; Gang, Ira N. |
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Bonn : Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |
Subject: | female ownership of assets | informal institutions | cash crops | household welfare |
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freely available
Series: | IZA Discussion Papers ; 7907 |
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Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Type of publication (narrower categories): | Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Other identifiers: | 777767465 [GVK] hdl:10419/93342 [Handle] RePEc:iza:izadps:dp7907 [RePEc] |
Classification: | Q12 - Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets ; O2 - Development Planning and Policy ; O13 - Agriculture; Natural Resources; Energy; Environment; Other Primary Products ; J16 - Economics of Gender |
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Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333324