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household survey panel data. Land is owned mostly by men, who are wealthier than their spouses with respect to almost all types …
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promoted as a strategy to increase dietary intakes of vitamin A among young children and adult women in Uganda. As an … and nonland assets controlled by women, affect adoption and diffusion decisions. …
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whether benefits affect men and women equally. Using a randomized field experiment in Senegal and Burkina Faso, we compare … hypothesize that this difference results from the fact that although men and women are equally exposed to yield risk, women face … additional sources of life cycle risk—particularly health risks associated with fertility and childcare—that men do not. In …
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Interventions aimed at increasing water availability for livelihood and domestic activities have great potential to improve various determinants of undernutrition, such as the quantity and diversity of foods consumed within the household, income generation, and women’s empowerment....
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and development implementers could improve outcomes for women in future projects. …
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This research was undertaken to understand gender issues on the distribution of, access to, and control over major assets of rice-farming households as well as the effects of technologies promoted by an Agricultural Research for Development (AR4D) project in selected villages in eastern Uttar...
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between the impact of the intervention on men and on women is narrowed when taking into account the gender …-differentiated paralegal effort, and thus costs, allocated to women and men. … directing improvements in women’s land access. Women are often excluded from traditional patrilineal inheritance systems …
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by these data, and uses these measures to assess the gaps in the land rights of women and men. Building on the conceptual … women fare better or worse in certain countries. In particular, the limited information on joint and individual ownership …
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competition in off-farm labor markets, and to eliminate discrimination against women. The authors conclude that there is no …
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