Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/242712 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
Centre for Land Tenure Studies Working Paper No. 05/13
Publisher: 
Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), Centre for Land Tenure Studies (CLTS), Ås
Abstract: 
This study finds that female-headed households have 23% smaller owned landholdings and 54% smaller operational landholdings. Differences in characteristics such as age, labor, oxen and previous divorce explain less than half the differences in landholding sizes, while the remaining can be attributed to differences in returns to these characteristics. This indicates that there is a gender bias in access to land, even after land reforms that intended to strengthen women's rights. The main policy recommendation is to further gender-sensitize the land certification process, strengthen women's opportunities to cultivate their land and continue the process of securing women's tenure rights.
Subjects: 
Ethiopia
property rights
discrimination
Oaxaca decomposition
JEL: 
J16
Q15
ISBN: 
978-82-7490-215-2
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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