Empowering Women Through Equal Land Rights: Experimental Evidence from Rural Uganda

In an experiment, this study offered households fully-subsidized land titles and basic information about the benefits of land titling

From:
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
Published
1 March 2019
Country:
Uganda
Document Type:
Briefing
Theme:
Economic Growth
Authors:
Cherchi, L, Goldstein, M, Habyarimana, J, Montalvao, J

Abstract

Traditional customary land tenure systems often limit women’s land rights in Sub-Saharan Africa. In an ongoing experiment in rural Uganda, we offered households fully-subsidized land titles and basic information about the benefits of land titling. Providing additional gender information and making the offer conditional on female co-tilting raised the take up of joint titles to about 76 percent and 89 percent, respectively, without dampening overall demand for titling.

This work is part of the Closing the Gender Gap in Africa: evaluating new policies and programmes for women’s economic empowerment programme

Citation

Cherchi, Ludovica; Goldstein, Markus; Habyarimana, James; Montalvao, Joao; O’Sullivan, Michael; Udry, Chris; Gruver, Ariel. 2019. Empowering Women Through Equal Land Rights : Experimental Evidence From Rural Uganda. Gender Innovation Lab Policy Brief; No. 33. World Bank, Washington, DC.

Empowering Women Through Equal Land Rights: Experimental Evidence from Rural Uganda

Published 1 March 2019
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