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This paper aims to study the relationship between women's land ownership and household food security in Tanzania, using … (HDDS) as a measure of food security, and we categorize land ownership by gender and whether it is solely or jointly owned … women's land ownership in driving household food security in Tanzania. By uncovering the positive impacts of women's land …
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We examine the impact of legislated land ceiling size on capital investment and industrialisation in the Indian states. India's land ceiling legislations of 1960s and 1970s imposed a ceiling on maximum land holdings and redistributed above-ceiling lands. These ceiling legislations, effectively...
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We study how distributional preferences are affected by a major property rights reform that transformed informal use-rights over land traditionally characterizing rural Beninese villages in a system akin to private ownership. The design combines the randomized control-trial implementation of the...
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unintended consequence may be increased within-household gender inequality. We analyse a tenancy registration programme in West …
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survey experiment in Tanzania that varied two key dimensions: the level of detail of the questions and the type of respondent … subject playing an important role, while gender and educational differences seem less important. -- Labor statistics ; survey … design ; Tanzania ; field experiment …
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Attitudes toward risk underlie virtually every important economic decision an individual makes. In this experimental study, I examine how introducing a time delay into the execution of an investment plan influences individuals' risk preferences. The field experiment proceeded in three stages: a...
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Limited access to finance is one of the major barriers for women entrepreneurs in Africa. This paper presents a model of start-ups in which firms' sales and profits depend on their productivity and access to credit. However, due to the lack of collateral assets such as land, female entrepreneurs...
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of the organization in which they are implemented. This paper studies the effect of gender composition and leadership on … authority, the second study also varied the gender of an assigned team leader. We find that a female leader substantially …
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unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new … findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …. Experiments have also offered new insights into gender differences in preferences: women appear to gain less from negotiation …
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absolute grading, grading on a curve actually narrows the gender gap in performance. …
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