This paper examines how women's participation in family decision-making is affected by land rights in rural areas in … India. The 2005 Hindu Succession Act was legislated to protect women's rights to an equal share in ancestral property …, including land. Using a unique rural household survey from Eastern Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Odisha, and West Bengal where female …

Land policy reforms across Africa are expected to address several of the underlying critical issues of food security … reform. This paper simultaneously estimates the impact of food prices and the Land Act of 1999 on rural household welfare. We … education and land titling have a major influence on improving household welfare as well as in offsetting food price shocks and …

This Element provides an in-depth analysis of the role of women's ownership of and access to land in sub-Saharan Africa … (SSA) in determining gender equality and women's economic and social outcomes and gives suggestions to inform effective … gender-sensitive land policies. Using cross-sectional regression analysis, we find that ownership of land by women positively …