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
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spelling okr-10986-315132021-05-25T10:54:37Z Empowering Women Through Equal Land Rights : Experimental Evidence From Rural Uganda Cherchi, Ludovica Goldstein, Markus Habyarimana, James Montalvao, Joao O'Sullivan, Michael Udry, Chris Gruver, Ariel LAND RIGHTS GENDER PROPERTY RIGHTS RURAL POVERTY LAND TITLE AFRICA GENDER POLICY GENDER INNOVATION LAB WOMEN AND PROPERTY RIGHTS 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. 2019-04-09T19:07:54Z 2019-04-09T19:07:54Z 2019-04 Brief http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/472041554472618017/Empowering-Women-Through-Equal-Land-Rights-Experimental-Evidence-From-Rural-Uganda http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31513 English Gender Innovation Lab Policy Brief;No. 33 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Africa Uganda
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topic LAND RIGHTS
GENDER
PROPERTY RIGHTS
RURAL POVERTY
LAND TITLE
AFRICA GENDER POLICY
GENDER INNOVATION LAB
WOMEN AND PROPERTY RIGHTS
spellingShingle LAND RIGHTS
GENDER
PROPERTY RIGHTS
RURAL POVERTY
LAND TITLE
AFRICA GENDER POLICY
GENDER INNOVATION LAB
WOMEN AND PROPERTY RIGHTS
Cherchi, Ludovica
Goldstein, Markus
Habyarimana, James
Montalvao, Joao
O'Sullivan, Michael
Udry, Chris
Gruver, Ariel
Empowering Women Through Equal Land Rights : Experimental Evidence From Rural Uganda
geographic_facet Africa
Uganda
relation Gender Innovation Lab Policy Brief;No. 33
description 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.
format Brief
author Cherchi, Ludovica
Goldstein, Markus
Habyarimana, James
Montalvao, Joao
O'Sullivan, Michael
Udry, Chris
Gruver, Ariel
author_facet Cherchi, Ludovica
Goldstein, Markus
Habyarimana, James
Montalvao, Joao
O'Sullivan, Michael
Udry, Chris
Gruver, Ariel
author_sort Cherchi, Ludovica
title Empowering Women Through Equal Land Rights : Experimental Evidence From Rural Uganda
title_short Empowering Women Through Equal Land Rights : Experimental Evidence From Rural Uganda
title_full Empowering Women Through Equal Land Rights : Experimental Evidence From Rural Uganda
title_fullStr Empowering Women Through Equal Land Rights : Experimental Evidence From Rural Uganda
title_full_unstemmed Empowering Women Through Equal Land Rights : Experimental Evidence From Rural Uganda
title_sort empowering women through equal land rights : experimental evidence from rural uganda
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2019
url 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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