Investment impacts of gendered land rights in customary tenure systems
Substantive and methodological insights from Malawi
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11912658 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Klaus Deininger (0000-0003-3198-0083, World Bank Group), Fang Xia (0000-0001-7916-833X, University of International Business and Economics, corresponding author), Tugba Kilic (0000-0002-3642-3123, World Bank Group), Heather Moylan (Bank of Italy) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 147 |
| Pages | 105654-105654 |
| Publication date | 2021-08-05 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | World Development (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-750X • E-ISSN: 1873-5991 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105654 |
| OpenAlex | W3192809960 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 92 |
Although most of the world’s agricultural land is cultivated under customary tenure regimes that tend to change over time in response to exogenous factors, the impact of customary rights on productivity and investment remains under-researched. Using unique data from an experiment in Malawi, we show that (i) parcel-level bequest and sale rights affect investment and cash crop adoption; (ii) impacts are gender-differentiated -women’s rights affect investment and men’s cash crop adoption- and vary by inheritance regime; and (iii) measurement error associated with traditional approaches to survey data collection easily obscures these effects. Beyond reinforcing the need for careful empirical research, this suggests that gradual erosion of women’s customary rights may reduce land related investment and that measures other than titling (e.g. changes in family law or legal support) may enhance it
Affect (linguistics · Agricultural economics · Agricultural productivity · Agriculture · Bequest · Business · Cash crop · Customary land · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Inheritance (genetic algorithm · Investment (military · Land tenure · Land titling · Political science · Production (economics · Productivity · Property rights · Public economics · Sociology · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Land Rights and Reforms · Law
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| Unique citing works | 12 |
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| Citations per year | 2,4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |