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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Main Authors: Quisumbing, Agnes R., Payongayong, Ellen, Otsuka, Keijiro
Format: Brief
Language:Inglés
Published: International Food Policy Research Institute 2004
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/156897

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