Women’s Land Rights and Children’s Human Capital in Vietnam
By Nidhiya Menon, Yana van der Meulen Rodgers, Huong Nguyen. 2014
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Vietnam’s 1993 Land Law created a land market by granting households land-use rights which could be exchanged, leased, and mortgaged. Using a matched household sample from Vietnam’s 2004 and 2008 Household Living Standards Survey, this study analyzes whether land titling for women led to improvements in child health and education. Results indicate that female-only held land-use rights decreased the incidence of illness among children, increased their health insurance coverage, raised school enrollment, and reallocated household expenditures toward food and away from alcohol and tobacco. These effects were almost all stronger than in households with male-only or jointly-held land-use rights.
Subfields: Sociology and Political Science, Soil Science
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- Ruth S. Meinzen-Dick
- Cheryl R. Doss
- Abdoul G. Sam
- Khushbu Mishra
- Sophie Theis
- A. Quisumbing
- H. Teklewold
- M. Kassie
Citations in the corpus
- Women's land rights as a pathway to poverty reduction: Framework and review of available evidence (2017, background): “Bargaining power and decision making over consumption Mishra and Sam (2016) Nepal Empirically examine how women’s landownership affects her healthcare, major household purchases, and visiting family or relatives Quantitative, QE (coarsened exact matching, panel analysis, and IV) 2001 and 2011 Nepal ”
- Does Women’s Land Ownership Promote Their Empowerment? Empirical Evidence from Nepal (2016, background): “As evidenced in a number of empirical studies, this increase in women’s autonomy is expected to translate into a redirection of resources toward women’s preferences, including higher investment in human capital of the household such as education, health and nutrition (Aslam & Kingdon, 2012; Doss, 20”