Women's property rights and gendered policies: implications for women's long-term welfare in rural Tanzania

This paper evaluates effects of community-level women's property and inheritance rights on women's economic outcomes using a 13 year longitudinal panel from rural Tanzania. In the preferred model specification, inverse probability weighting is applied to a woman-level fixed effects model to control...

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Main Author: Peterman, Amber
Format: Journal Article
Language:Inglés
Published: Informa UK Limited 2011
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/152655
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description This paper evaluates effects of community-level women's property and inheritance rights on women's economic outcomes using a 13 year longitudinal panel from rural Tanzania. In the preferred model specification, inverse probability weighting is applied to a woman-level fixed effects model to control for individual-level time invariant heterogeneity and attrition. Results indicate that changes in women's property and inheritance rights are significantly associated with women's employment outside the home, self-employment and earnings. Results are not limited to sub-groups of marginalised women. Findings indicate lack of gender equity in sub-Saharan Africa may inhibit economic development for women and society as a whole.
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spelling CGSpace1526552024-11-15T08:52:34Z Women's property rights and gendered policies: implications for women's long-term welfare in rural Tanzania Peterman, Amber women's empowerment welfare gender This paper evaluates effects of community-level women's property and inheritance rights on women's economic outcomes using a 13 year longitudinal panel from rural Tanzania. In the preferred model specification, inverse probability weighting is applied to a woman-level fixed effects model to control for individual-level time invariant heterogeneity and attrition. Results indicate that changes in women's property and inheritance rights are significantly associated with women's employment outside the home, self-employment and earnings. Results are not limited to sub-groups of marginalised women. Findings indicate lack of gender equity in sub-Saharan Africa may inhibit economic development for women and society as a whole. 2011-01 2024-10-01T13:55:04Z 2024-10-01T13:55:04Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/152655 en Limited Access Informa UK Limited Peterman, Amber. 2011. Women's property rights and gendered policies: implications for women's long-term welfare in rural Tanzania. Journal of Development Studies, 47:1, 1-30. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220381003600366
spellingShingle women's empowerment
welfare
gender
Peterman, Amber
Women's property rights and gendered policies: implications for women's long-term welfare in rural Tanzania
title Women's property rights and gendered policies: implications for women's long-term welfare in rural Tanzania
title_full Women's property rights and gendered policies: implications for women's long-term welfare in rural Tanzania
title_fullStr Women's property rights and gendered policies: implications for women's long-term welfare in rural Tanzania
title_full_unstemmed Women's property rights and gendered policies: implications for women's long-term welfare in rural Tanzania
title_short Women's property rights and gendered policies: implications for women's long-term welfare in rural Tanzania
title_sort women s property rights and gendered policies implications for women s long term welfare in rural tanzania
topic women's empowerment
welfare
gender
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/152655
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