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

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...

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Published inThe Journal of development studies Vol. 54; no. 10; pp. 1756 - 1774
Main Authors Melesse, Mequanint B., Dabissa, Adane, Bulte, Erwin
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Abingdon Routledge 03.10.2018
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
Alternative approaches
Certification
Development Economics
Development Economics Group
Development policy
Empowerment
Females
Gender roles
Land
Leerstoelgroep Ontwikkelingseconomie
Ontwikkelingseconomie
Participation
Policy analysis
Propensity
Registration
WASS
Women
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Summary: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.
ISSN:0022-0388
1743-9140
DOI:10.1080/00220388.2017.1327662