Empowering Women Through Equal Land Rights : Experimental Evidence From Rural Uganda (English)

Traditional customary land tenure systems often limit women’s land rights in Sub-Saharan Africa.In an ongoing experiment in rural Uganda, we offered households fully-subsidized land titles and basic information about the benefits of land titling.Providing additional gender information and making the offer conditional on female co-tilting raised the take up of joint titles to about 76 percent and 89 percent, respectively, without dampening overall...

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Cherchi,Ludovica;

Goldstein,Markus P.;

Habyarimana,James Paul;

Montalvao,Joao;

O'Sullivan,Michael B.;

Udry,Chris;

Gruver,Ariel Rose;
Document Date
2019/04/01
Document Type
Brief
Report Number
135873
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
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World,
Region
Other,
Disclosure Date
2019/04/05
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
Doc Name
Empowering Women Through Equal Land Rights : Experimental Evidence From Rural Uganda
Keywords
land title

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Cherchi,Ludovica; Goldstein,Markus P.; Habyarimana,James Paul; Montalvao,Joao; O'Sullivan,Michael B.; Udry,Chris; Gruver,Ariel Rose.

Empowering Women Through Equal Land Rights : Experimental Evidence From Rural Uganda (English). Gender innovation lab policy brief|no. 33 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/472041554472618017

Empowering Women Through Equal Land Rights : Experimental Evidence From Rural Uganda (English)

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