Using the Law to Change the Custom

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Gendered Laws and Women in the Workforce (2020, background): “The interplay of social norms and the formal legal system is discussed by Aldashev et al. (2012), who present a model in which progressive changes in the law can change customs in the same direction by exerting what the authors term a “magnet effect.”
Environmental and Gender Impacts of Land Tenure Regularization in Africa: Pilot Evidence from Rwanda (2011, background): “Second, how land issues are resolvedwill affect social norms in other areas such as gender equality and resource access, so that evaluating the impact of interventions in this area can provide broader insights (Aldashev et al., 2012).”