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Does land titling promote women's empowerment? Evidence from Nepal

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Women's land titling is recognized as an important tool to promote women's empowerment in agriculture, as well as a means to ght poverty. However, most rural women still have low access to land, despite their crucial role in the agricultural sector. This paper uses the National Demographic and Health Survey (2011) to investigate the role female land rights have in promoting their empowerment - expressed in terms of decision-making power - in Nepal. Our results demonstrate that women 's nal say within the household increases with land ownership.

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  • Daniela Campus, 2016. "Does land titling promote women's empowerment? Evidence from Nepal," Working Papers - Economics wp2016_03.rdf, Universita' degli Studi di Firenze, Dipartimento di Scienze per l'Economia e l'Impresa.
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    land property rights; Nepal; empowerment; gender;
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    JEL classification:

    • D13 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Household Production and Intrahouse Allocation
    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
    • Q15 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Land Ownership and Tenure; Land Reform; Land Use; Irrigation; Agriculture and Environment

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