Property rights and the gender distribution of wealth in Ecuador, Ghana and India

By C. D. Deere, A. Oduro, H. Swaminathan, Cheryl R. Doss. Journal of Economic Inequality, 2013

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Women's land rights as a pathway to poverty reduction: Framework and review of available evidence (2017, methodology): “Deininger et al. (2013) use the timing of the father's death relative to the implementation of the HSAA and Roy (2015) uses the death of the grandfather as the event that triggers the partition of the estate.”
Gender, assets, and market-oriented agriculture: learning from high-value crop and livestock projects in Africa and Asia (2015, background): “Subsequently, new research in West Africa has shown that there may be a small degree of joint asset ownership, up to 25 % in Ghana (Deere et al. 2013).”
What dimensions of women's empowerment in agriculture matter for nutrition in Ghana? (2015, background): “Despite women’s high degree of involvement in agriculture, data from a nationallyrepresentative survey indicate that most agricultural parcels (85 percent) are owned exclusively by the individual male, 9.8 percent by the individual female, and only 3.5 percent jointly (Deere et al. 2012).”
Gender Dimensions of Disaster Risk and Resilience (2021, background): “Married women in Ecuador own 44 percent of household assets (including land); in Ghana, they own 19 percent, and in Karnataka, India, 9 percent (Deere et al. 2013).”