Land Inheritance and Schooling in Matrilineal Societies: Evidence from Sumatra

By A. Quisumbing, K. Otsuka. 2001

119 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Gender Studies, Safety Research, Soil Science

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In Gender Studies

1. Ruth S. Meinzen-Dick
2. C. D. Deere
3. A. Quisumbing
4. Sanchari Roy
5. Eliana La Ferrara
6. D. Raju
7. A. Morrison
8. N. Sinha

In Safety Research

1. A. Milazzo
2. C. D. Deere
3. Ruth S. Meinzen-Dick
4. A. Quisumbing
5. Sanchari Roy
6. Eliana La Ferrara
7. D. Raju
8. A. Morrison

In Soil Science

1. Sanchari Roy
2. A. Milazzo
3. C. D. Deere
4. Ruth S. Meinzen-Dick
5. Eliana La Ferrara
6. C. Kovarik
7. D. Raju
8. A. Morrison

Citations in the corpus

• Empowering women? Inheritance rights, female education and dowry payments in India (2015, background): “Quisumbing and Otsuka (2001) also find evidence of land inheritance and schooling being treated as different forms of intergenerational transfers in Sumatra.”
• Descent Rules and Strategic Transfers. Evidence from Matrilineal Groups in Ghana (2007, unknown): “In a different matrilineal society, Sumatra, Quisumbing and Otsuka (2001) consider land inheritance and schooling as different forms of intergenerational transfers and study the evolution of gender differential in schooling as land tenure systems become more individualized.”
• Gender Equality, Poverty and Economic Growth (2007, background): “In many African societies, however, this is exclusively a male task (Quisumbing et al. 2001).”
• The Gender Asset Gap: Land in Latin America (2003, background): “See Estudillo, Quisumbing, and Otsuka (2001) on the Phillipines and Quisumbing and Otsuka (2001) on Sumatra.”
• Customary Norms, Inheritance, and Human Capital: Evidence from a Reform of the Matrilineal System in Ghana (2014, background): “…literature looks at the economic consequences of social norms and kinship systems, modeling household behavior as a rational response to traditional customs (e.g., La Ferrara, 2003 and 2007; Goetghebuer and Platteau, 2010; Mobarak et al., 2013; Quisumbing et al., 2001; Quisumbing and Otsuka, 2001).”
• Gender and Sustainability (2014, background): “In this particular situation, understanding historical context matters: The research site was a matrilineal area where women controlled lowland paddy land and men developed agroforestry plots in upland areas (74), making the men targets of agroforestry and conservation extension messages.”