Are wealth transfers biased against girls?: gender differences in land inheritance and schooling investment in Ghana's western region

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dc.creatorQuisumbing, Agnes R.
dc.creatorPayongayong, Ellen
dc.creatorOtsuka, Keijiro
dc.date2004
dc.date2024-10-24T12:42:22Z
dc.date2024-10-24T12:42:22Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:29:51Z
dc.descriptionThis study attempts to analyze changing patterns of land transfers and schooling investments by gender over three generations in customary land areas of Ghana's Western Region. Although traditional matrilineal inheritance rules deny landownership rights to women, women have increasingly acquired land through gifts and other means, thereby reducing the gender gap in landownership. The gender gap in schooling has also declined significantly, though it persists. We attribute such changes to the increase in women's bargaining power due to an agricultural technology that increased the demand for women's labor, contributing to the reduction of social" discrimination as well as weak "parental" discrimination." -- Authors' Abstract
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/155642
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/106181
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceQuisumbing, Agnes R.; Payongayong, Ellen; Otsuka, Keijiro. 2004. Are wealth transfers biased against girls? gender differences in land inheritance and schooling investment in Ghana's western region. FCND Discussion Paper 186. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/155642
dc.subjectproperty rights
dc.subjectland inheritance rights
dc.subjectagricultural growth
dc.subjectcash transfers
dc.subjectgender
dc.subjecteducation
dc.subjectland
dc.titleAre wealth transfers biased against girls?: gender differences in land inheritance and schooling investment in Ghana's western region
dc.typeWorking Paper

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