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

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Working Papers - Economics from Universita' degli Studi di Firenze, Dipartimento di Scienze per l'Economia e l'Impresa

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: land property rights; Nepal; empowerment; gender (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D13 J16 Q15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32 pages
Date: 2016
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