Pronatal Property Rights over Land and Fertility Outcomes
Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Ethiopia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20302268 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniel Ayalew Ali (0000-0002-3253-4897, Development Research Group, The World Bank, USA, corresponding author), Klaus Deininger (0000-0003-3198-0083, Development Research Group, The World Bank, USA), Niels Kemper (Development Research Group, The World Bank, USA) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 951-967 |
| Publication date | 2022-05-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Development Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0388 • E-ISSN: 1743-9140 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00220388.2021.2013465 |
| OpenAlex | W3124065027 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 38 |
An exogenous policy change that ended the ability of rural Ethiopian households to affect the size or security of their land holdings through fertility decisions provides a natural experiment to explore the impact of land tenure institutions on fertility. Use of a difference-in-differences approach that uses aggregated data from censuses before (1994) and after (2007) the reform found large fertility effects, with rural women estimated to have reduced life-time fertility by one child due to the reform. Estimated effects on urban women or employment outcomes are not significantly different from zero and robustness checks show no evidence of spillovers or policy endogeneity
Affect (linguistics) · Agriculture · Demographic economics · Difference in differences · Econometrics · Economics · Endogeneity · Family planning · Fertility · Geography · Land reform · Land tenure · Natural experiment · Population · Property rights · Research methodology · Robustness (evolution) · Sociology · Total fertility rate · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Demography · Land Rights and Reforms · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0.4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |