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Does reinforcing spouses’ land rights improve children’s outcomes? Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in rural Vietnam

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  • Julia Anna Matz

    () (Institute for International Integration Studies and Department of Economics, Trinity College Dublin)

  • Gaia Narciso

    () (Institute for International Integration Studies and Department of Economics, Trinity College Dublin)

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The aim of this paper is to investigate the relationship between laws strengthening women’s rights, and children’s outcomes, namely child labor and educational attainment. We analyze the effects of a land reform introduced in Vietnam in 2003 that had the objective of reinforcing women’s land rights within households. The introduction of the 2003 Land Law represents a quasi-natural experiment which allows us to analyze how legal reforms are transformed and adopted by social norms. We investigate the effects of being part of the population of households targeted by the land law with the help of a household survey that permits detailed investigation of property rights at the plot level. We show that the land reform contributed to reducing girls’ participation in household agricultural production and to increasing girls’ educational attainment. We do not find comparable effects for boys.

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Paper provided by IIIS in its series The Institute for International Integration Studies Discussion Paper Series with number iiisdp348.

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Date of creation: Dec 2010
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Handle: RePEc:iis:dispap:iiisdp348

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Keywords: Child labor; education; land rights; gender; land reform; Vietnam.;

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