Are wealth transfers biased against girls?: gender differences in land inheritance and schooling investment in Ghana's western region

This study attempts to analyze changing patterns of land transfers and schooling investments by gender over three generations in customary land areas of Ghana's Western Region. Although traditional matrilineal inheritance rules deny landownership rights to women, women have increasingly acquired lan...

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Autores principales: Quisumbing, Agnes R., Payongayong, Ellen, Otsuka, Keijiro
Formato: Artículo preliminar
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: International Food Policy Research Institute 2004
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/155642

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