Deere, Carmen; Oduro, Abena; Swaminathan, Hema; Doss, Cheryl - In: Journal of Economic Inequality 11 (2013) 2, pp. 249-265
Women’s ability to accumulate wealth is often attributed to whether they have property rights; i.e., a legal personality to own and manage property. In this paper we argue that basic property rights are insufficient; whether women are able to accumulate wealth also depends upon the marital and...