Land tenure in Tigray: How large is the gender bias?

Therere Dokken ()
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Therere Dokken: UMB School og Economics and Business, Postal: Centre for Land Tenure Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, P.O. Box 5003, NO-1432 Aas, Norway

No 5/13, CLTS Working Papers from Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Centre for Land Tenure Studies

Abstract: This study finds that female-headed households have 23% smaller owned landholdings and 54% smaller operational landholdings. Differences in characteristics such as age, labor, oxen and previous divorce explain less than half the differences in landholding sizes, while the remaining can be attributed to differences in returns to these characteristics. This indicates that there is a gender bias in access to land, even after land reforms that intended to strengthen women’s rights. The main policy recommendation is to further gender-sensitize the land certification process, strengthen women’s opportunities to cultivate their land and continue the process of securing women’s tenure rights.

Keywords: Ethiopia; property rights; discrimination; Oaxaca decomposition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J16 Q15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 42 pages
Date: 2013-05-08, Revised 2019-10-10
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-afr and nep-dem
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