greater protein intake. Moreover, positive impacts on women’s empowerment and gender parity within the household are found …

probability weighting, we explore whether receiving a georeferenced cadastral map of ones parcel provides women with increased … affected womens time use, as beneficiary women spent more hours working in non-agricultural activities, investing in their own …, which enables women to increase their bargaining power within the household in order to improve their own and the family …

This paper examines the effect of women's effective land ownership on female empowerment and household food security in … ownership of plots provides women with increased bargaining power, empowering them to participate more actively in productive … informal land ownership on women's empowerment, we do find that owning land significantly decreases the daily time dedicated to …

Why has the expansion of women's economic and political rights coincided with economic development? This paper … investigates this question, focusing on a key economic right for women: property rights. The basic hypothesis is that the process … their daughters. The model predicts that declining fertility would hasten reform of women's property rights whereas legal …

municipalities with women councilors devote more resources to social investments. In particular, women politicians prioritize …

the Derg regime recognized the widespread discrimination against women in Ethiopian society and placed gender emancipation … society has at times challenged its commitment to women, the EPRDF has, nevertheless, introduced a number of reforms which aim … to promote gender equality. This includes recognition of equality between men and women in land rights, and a land …

This paper aims to understand how policy change for women's rights occurs, and what factors and conditions facilitate … explores the range of actors that mobilize for/against gender equality policy change, with a particular focus on women …'s movements. The paper provides insights on how women interact with other actors and how they articulate their claims to …