Joint Land Certification, Gendered Preferences, and Land-related Decisions: Are Wives Getting More Involved?

Arbeitspapier

We have investigated whether joint land certification in Southern Ethiopia has contributed to a strengthening of the perceived land rights of women and an increase in their intra-household involvement in land-related decisions. We use gender-disaggregated household panel data and generate indices for wives' and husbands' land rights attitudes and for wives' involvement in land-related decisions. After controlling for endogeneity of land certification, using a Control function approach, we find that receipt of land certificate has strengthened wives' awareness of their land rights. We also find evidence of an intra-household bargaining effect and an intracommunity social process effect that both contribute to stronger involvement of wives in landrelated decisions within households.

Object Details

• ISBN: 978-82-7490-231-2
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Centre for Land Tenure Studies Working Paper ; No. 06/14

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination ; Land Ownership and Tenure; Land Reform; Land Use; Irrigation; Agriculture and Environment
• Subject: joint land certification ; gender ; empowerment of wives ; Ethiopia

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Holden, Stein ; Bezu, Sosina
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), Centre for Land Tenure Studies (CLTS)
• (where): Ås
• (when): 2014

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/242728
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET