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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International Food Policy Research Institute
2004
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| author | Quisumbing, Agnes R. Payongayong, Ellen Otsuka, Keijiro |
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| description | 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 land through gifts and other means, thereby reducing the gender gap in landownership. The gender gap in schooling has also declined significantly, though it persists. We attribute such changes to the increase in women's bargaining power due to an agricultural technology that increased the demand for women's labor, contributing to the reduction of social" discrimination as well as weak "parental" discrimination." -- Authors' Abstract |
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| spelling | CGSpace1556422025-11-06T07:04:17Z Are wealth transfers biased against girls?: gender differences in land inheritance and schooling investment in Ghana's western region Quisumbing, Agnes R. Payongayong, Ellen Otsuka, Keijiro property rights land inheritance rights agricultural growth cash transfers gender education land 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 land through gifts and other means, thereby reducing the gender gap in landownership. The gender gap in schooling has also declined significantly, though it persists. We attribute such changes to the increase in women's bargaining power due to an agricultural technology that increased the demand for women's labor, contributing to the reduction of social" discrimination as well as weak "parental" discrimination." -- Authors' Abstract 2004 2024-10-24T12:42:22Z 2024-10-24T12:42:22Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/155642 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Quisumbing, Agnes R.; Payongayong, Ellen; Otsuka, Keijiro. 2004. Are wealth transfers biased against girls? gender differences in land inheritance and schooling investment in Ghana's western region. FCND Discussion Paper 186. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/155642 |
| spellingShingle | property rights land inheritance rights agricultural growth cash transfers gender education land Quisumbing, Agnes R. Payongayong, Ellen Otsuka, Keijiro Are wealth transfers biased against girls?: gender differences in land inheritance and schooling investment in Ghana's western region |
| title | Are wealth transfers biased against girls?: gender differences in land inheritance and schooling investment in Ghana's western region |
| title_full | Are wealth transfers biased against girls?: gender differences in land inheritance and schooling investment in Ghana's western region |
| title_fullStr | Are wealth transfers biased against girls?: gender differences in land inheritance and schooling investment in Ghana's western region |
| title_full_unstemmed | Are wealth transfers biased against girls?: gender differences in land inheritance and schooling investment in Ghana's western region |
| title_short | Are wealth transfers biased against girls?: gender differences in land inheritance and schooling investment in Ghana's western region |
| title_sort | are wealth transfers biased against girls gender differences in land inheritance and schooling investment in ghana s western region |
| topic | property rights land inheritance rights agricultural growth cash transfers gender education land |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/155642 |
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