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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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. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1568972025-04-08T18:30:25Z 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 agricultural technology agricultural growth land inheritance rights property rights cash transfers gender 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. 2004 2024-10-24T12:46:04Z 2024-10-24T12:46:04Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/156897 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 Brief. 186. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/156897 |
| spellingShingle | agricultural technology agricultural growth land inheritance rights property rights cash transfers gender 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 | agricultural technology agricultural growth land inheritance rights property rights cash transfers gender land |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/156897 |
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