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Joint Land Certification Programmes and Women’s Empowerment: Evidence from Ethiopia

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  • Mequanint B. Melesse
  • Adane Dabissa
  • Erwin Bulte

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This paper connects two important development policy issues: women’s empowerment and land certification. We use propensity score matching to study the impact of the Ethiopian joint land registration and certification programme on women’s empowerment. Data are collected using surveys and a field experiment, enabling construction of complementary indices for empowerment. Our main result is that joint land certification has significant effects on women’s empowerment, particularly on dimensions that indicate female participation and roles outside the home. This result is robust to various sensitivity checks and alternative model specifications.

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  • Mequanint B. Melesse & Adane Dabissa & Erwin Bulte, 2018. "Joint Land Certification Programmes and Women’s Empowerment: Evidence from Ethiopia," Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 54(10), pages 1756-1774, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jdevst:v:54:y:2018:i:10:p:1756-1774
    DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2017.1327662
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    1. Deininger, Klaus & Xia, Fang & Kilic, Talip & Moylan, Heather, 2021. "Investment impacts of gendered land rights in customary tenure systems: Substantive and methodological insights from Malawi," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 147(C).
    2. Deininger,Klaus W. & Ali,Daniel Ayalew, 2022. "How Urban Land Titling and Registry Reform Affect Land and Credit Markets : Evidencefrom Lesotho," Policy Research Working Paper Series 10043, The World Bank.
    3. Mequanint B. Melesse, 2021. "The effect of women's nutrition knowledge and empowerment on child nutrition outcomes in rural Ethiopia," Agricultural Economics, International Association of Agricultural Economists, vol. 52(6), pages 883-899, November.
    4. Holden, Stein T. & Tilahun, Mesfin, 2020. "Farm size and gender distribution of land: Evidence from Ethiopian land registry data," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 130(C).
    5. Sheldon, Hannah & Shwachman Kaminaga, Allison, 2023. "What's in a name? Property titling and women's empowerment in Benin," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 129(C).
    6. Bridget Bwalya Umar & Progress H. Nyanga, 2023. "Customary Land Certification, Governance and Natural Resource Use in Zambia: A Social Learning Approach," The European Journal of Development Research, Palgrave Macmillan;European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), vol. 35(5), pages 997-1027, October.
    7. Holden, Stein T., 2020. "Gender dimensions of land tenure reforms in Ethiopia 1995-2020," CLTS Working Papers 6/20, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Centre for Land Tenure Studies.

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