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Gender discrimination in property rights
Casari, Marco; Lisciandra, Maurizio - 2014
Starting from the medieval period, women in the Italian Alps experienced a progressive erosion in property rights over the commons. We collected documents about the evolution of inheritance regulations on collective land issued by hundreds of peasant communities over a period of six centuries...
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Enterprising women in Southern Africa : when does land ownership matter?
Brixiova, Zuzana; Kangoye, Thierry; Tregenna, Fiona - 2020
Limited access to finance is one of the major barriers for women entrepreneurs in Africa. This paper presents a model of start-ups in which firms' sales and profits depend on their productivity and access to credit. However, due to the lack of collateral assets such as land, female entrepreneurs...
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(De facto) historical ethnic borders and land tenure in Sub-Saharan Africa
Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio; Özak, Ömer - 2023
We study the role of proximity to historical ethnic borders in determining individual land ownership in Sub-Saharan Africa. Following an instrumental variable strategy, we document that individuals have a lower likelihood of owning land near historical ethnic borders. In particular, the...
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Seasonal credit constraints and agricultural labor supply : evidence from Zambia
Fink, Guenther; Jack, B. Kelsey; Masiye, Felix - 2014
credit during the growing season substantially alters the allocation of household labor, with households in villages randomly …
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A convenient representation of the wealth distribution and more evidence on homeownership and wealth inequality in euro area countries
Biewen, Martin; Glaisner, Stefan; Kleimann, Rolf - 2021
the Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS). We also present more evidence on the role of homeownership …
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Do households where women own land fare better for food security? : evidence for Tanzania
Burrone, Sara; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 2023
This paper aims to study the relationship between women's land ownership and household food security in Tanzania, using … data from three waves of the Tanzanian National Panel Survey. The analysis focuses on the Household Dietary Diversity Scale …. Additionally, we examine the impact of the gendered division of crop cultivation on household food security, distinguishing between …
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Household debt and crises of confidence
Hintermaier, Thomas; Koeniger, Winfried - 2015
We show that the size of collateralized household debt determines an economy's vulnerability to crises of confidence …
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Alternative cash transfer delivery mechanisms : impacts on routine preventative health clinic visits in Burkina Faso
Akresh, Richard; De Walque, Damien; Kazianga, Harounan - 2012
household demand for routine preventative health services in rural Burkina Faso. The two-year pilot program randomly distributed …
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Short-term migration and intergenerational persistence of industry in rural India
Nandi, Tushar Kanti; Kar, Saibal - 2015
One of the well-known barriers to development is persistence of disadvantage among communities. The lack of occupational and therefore upward social mobility continues to restrain households from achieving socially desirable outcomes. This paper studies the effect of short-term internal...
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How do pre-school and/or school-age children affect parents' likelihood of migration and off-farm work in rural China's minority regions?
Ding, Sai; Dong, Xiao-yuan; Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - 2016
-age children, the gender of the child becomes as important to the analysis as the gender of the parent. With regard to household … composition, we find that in Muslim households the presence of extra adult men (of any age between 15 and 70) in the household … reduces the likelihood that women engage in off-farm work. The presence in the household of a woman of grandmotherly age …
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