The Productivity Commission released its final research report into ‘Rural Water Use and the Environment: The Role of … the efficient use of water, including for environmental purposes. The Commission suggests that governments should give … greater recognition to the integrated nature of water resources and use markets to more efficiently allocate water among …

, and the women worked closer to home. Next, due to the common pool nature of irrigation water, historically irrigation has …This paper proposes that ancestral use of irrigation reduces contemporary female labor force participation and female … property rights. We test this hypothesis using an exogenous measure of irrigation and data from the Afrobarometer, cross …