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

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

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.Pr...

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Main Authors: Cherchi, Ludovica, Goldstein, Markus, Habyarimana, James, Montalvao, Joao, O'Sullivan, Michael, Udry, Chris, Gruver, Ariel
Format: Brief
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2019
Subjects:
LAND RIGHTS
GENDER
PROPERTY RIGHTS
RURAL POVERTY
LAND TITLE
AFRICA GENDER POLICY
GENDER INNOVATION LAB
WOMEN AND PROPERTY RIGHTS
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/472041554472618017/Empowering-Women-Through-Equal-Land-Rights-Experimental-Evidence-From-Rural-Uganda
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31513
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Summary: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 demand for titling.

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