TY - JOUR
T1 - Joint Land Certification Programmes and Women’s Empowerment
T2 - Evidence from Ethiopia
AU - Melesse, Mequanint B.
AU - Dabissa, Adane
AU - Bulte, Erwin
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.5117494
U2 - 10.1080/00220388.2017.1327662
DO - 10.1080/00220388.2017.1327662
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85021130352
SN - 0022-0388
VL - 54
SP - 1756
EP - 1774
JO - Journal of Development Studies
JF - Journal of Development Studies
ER -