Arbeitspapier
Is women's ownership of land a panacea in developing countries? Evidence from land-owning farm households in Malawi
Our analysis of a rich representative household survey for Malawi, where patrilineal and matrilineal institutions coexist, suggests that (a) in matrilineal societies the likelihood of high value crop cultivation by a household increases with the extent of land owned by males, while the income generated from high value crop production decreases with the amount of land owned by females (b) cultivation of high value crops increases household welfare. The policy implication is that facilitating female ownership of assets through informal and formal institutions does not, on its own, increase welfare when appropriate complementary resources and institutions are absent.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Working Paper ; No. 2015-21
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets
Economic Development: Agriculture; Natural Resources; Energy; Environment; Other Primary Products
Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
- Thema
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female ownership of assets
informal institutions
cash crops
household
welfare
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar
Dimova, Ralitza
Gang, Ira N.
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Rutgers University, Department of Economics
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New Brunswick, NJ
- (wann)
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2015
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar
- Dimova, Ralitza
- Gang, Ira N.
- Rutgers University, Department of Economics
Entstanden
- 2015
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