Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/242728 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
Centre for Land Tenure Studies Working Paper No. 06/14
Publisher: 
Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), Centre for Land Tenure Studies (CLTS), Ås
Abstract: 
We have investigated whether joint land certification in Southern Ethiopia has contributed to a strengthening of the perceived land rights of women and an increase in their intra-household involvement in land-related decisions. We use gender-disaggregated household panel data and generate indices for wives' and husbands' land rights attitudes and for wives' involvement in land-related decisions. After controlling for endogeneity of land certification, using a Control function approach, we find that receipt of land certificate has strengthened wives' awareness of their land rights. We also find evidence of an intra-household bargaining effect and an intracommunity social process effect that both contribute to stronger involvement of wives in landrelated decisions within households.
Subjects: 
joint land certification
gender
empowerment of wives
Ethiopia
JEL: 
D03
J16
Q15
ISBN: 
978-82-7490-231-2
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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