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daughters will earn over their lifetimes. To help right gender imbalances, the authors consider policies to encourage adoption … conflict between policies to enhance the efficiency of investments in land and human capital and policies to promote gender …
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"This study attempts to analyze changing patterns of land transfers and schooling investments by gender over three … landownership rights to women, women have increasingly acquired land through gifts and other means, thereby reducing the gender gap … in landownership. The gender gap in schooling has also declined significantly, though it persists. We attribute such …
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"This study attempts to analyze changing patterns of land transfers and schooling investments by gender over three … landownership rights to women, women have increasingly acquired land through gifts and other means, thereby reducing the gender gap … in landownership. The gender gap in schooling has also declined significantly, though it persists. We attribute such …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997261
land and rented land under share tenancy due to distorted work incentives. While men and women are equally likely to plant … trees, women obtain lower yields on their cocoa plots, suggesting the presence of gender-specific constraints. …
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This research report examines three questions that are central to IFPRI research: How do property-rights institutions affect efficiency and equity? How are resources allocated within households? Why does this matter from a policy perspective? As part of a larger multicountry study on property...
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the type of land that is more intensive in their own work effort. While gender bias is either non-existent or small in … land inheritance, daughters tend to be disadvantaged with respect to schooling. The gender gap in schooling, however …
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