Do Women's Land Rights Promote Empowerment and Child Health in Nepal?

By K. Allendorf. World Development, 2007

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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Moving from the Household to the Individual: Multidimensional Poverty Analysis (2013, background): “literature that finds women’s ownership of assets exerts a positive influence on their ability to participate in household decision making (Allendorf, 2007; Garikipati, 2009; Swaminathan, Lahoti, and J Y, 2012) while reducing their vulnerability to violence (Bhattacharyya, Bedi, and Chhachhi, 2011; ”
The causal effect of maternal age at marriage on child wellbeing: Evidence from India (2017, methodology): “" American journal of human genetics, 47(1), 137-148.”
The Changing Nature of Work (2018, unknown): “122 89 Allendorf 2007. 90 Andrabi et al. 2012. 91 Maloney and Valencia Caciendo 2016. 92 Foster and Rosenzweig 1996. 93 Hanson 2007. 94 Nelson and Phelps 1966; Griliches 1969. 95 Baptist and Teal 2014. 96 Caselli and Coleman 2006; Li et al. 2017. 97 Maloney and Valencia Caicedo 2016. 98 Deming 2015.”
Does Women’s Land Ownership Promote Their Empowerment? Empirical Evidence from Nepal (2016, methodology): “Following Allendorf (2007), we utilize this information as a proxy to identify whether other household members own land.”
Gender inequalities in ownership and control of land in Africa: Myths versus reality: (2015, background): “Although most of this work considers tenure security at the household level, other research suggests that individual tenure within the household may also affect the outcomes of some household decisions (Doss 2005; Allendorf 2007; Deere and Twyman 2012).”
Women’s Land Rights and Children’s Human Capital in Vietnam (2014, background): “6 An exception is Allendorf (2007), which estimated an inverse relationship between women’s land rights and children’s malnutrition in Nepal.”
Land Registration, Governance, and Development : Evidence and Implications for Policy (2009, background): “health of their children, and concludes that the impact of landownership is comparable in magnitude to that of education and employment (Allendorf 2007).”
Women's land rights as a pathway to poverty reduction: Framework and review of available evidence (2017, unknown): “Allendorf (2007) found that women in Nepal who own land are significantly more likely to have the final say in household decisions, and children of mothers who own land are significantly less likely to be severely underweight.”
Microcredit and Women’s Empowerment: Through the Lens of Time Use Data from Rural India (2012, unknown): “This is especially concerning since it is well established that land as a productive asset is a critical determinant of women’s conomic wellbeing, social status and empowerment (Agarwal, 1994; Rao, 2007; Allendorf, 2007).”