Gender differences in the relationship between land ownership and managerial rights: Implications for intrahousehold farm labor allocation

Getting the (Gender-Disaggregated) lay of the land: Impact of survey respondent selection on measuring land ownership and rights

“…Disagreement may occur across spouses, and interpretations of concepts like "joint" ownership may not be well understood (Jacobs and Kes, 2015). Using plotlevel data from Ethiopia and Malawi, Kang et al (2020) also find that joint ownership may not necessarily translate into actual decision-making roles, with men often continuing to have soledecision making on planting on jointly-owned plots. 7 Other subjective issues arise aside from overall ownership , for example, find using nationally representative data from Ghana and Ecuador and for the state of Karnataka, India, that across all three samples, the distribution of monetary values of dwellings reported by women tends to be more narrowly clustered around the middle of the distribution, as compared to men, potentially affecting calculations of wealth inequality depending on the share of men and women in the survey sample.…”

“…This is particularly important for raising economic opportunities for more vulnerable groups, including women, who play important but often less-observable roles in smallholder farming or contributing family work (see Koolwal, 2019, for a review), and who face substantial inequalities in ownership and rights over land. 2 Additionally, in contexts where formal documentation is limited and local customs determine how land holdings are managed within households and are assigned to individuals, a more disaggregated view of different types of ownership (legal versus economic, for example) and rights (selling or bequeathing, for example) is needed (Kilic and Moylan, 2016;Kang et al, 2020;Slavchevska et al, 2017).…”

“…The plot-level data used byKang et al (2020) stem from the national surveys implemented in Ethiopia and Malawi, with support from the World Bank Living Standards Measurement Study -Integrated Surveys on Agriculture (LSMS-ISA), including the Malawi Fourth Integrated Household Survey (IHS4), which is in part the subject of our paper.8 For men, this share was about 89 percent across both the IHS4 and the IHPS.…”

The gender-binary cycle: the perpetual relations between a biological-essentialist view of gender, gender ideology, and gender-labelling and sorting

“…Women are extremely under-represented in leadership positions in politics [1], in top companies [2] and in academia [3]. They are also far less likely to own assets and land [4] and earn less money than men across countries [5]. Relative to boys, girls access to education is limited in many parts of the world, which translates to higher risks for unemployment and poor health [1].…”

Getting the (Gender-Disaggregated) Lay of the Land: Impact of Survey Respondent Selection on Measuring Land Ownership and Rights

“…This is particularly important for raising economic opportunities for more vulnerable groups, including women, who play important but often less-observable roles in smallholder farming or contributing family work (see Koolwal, 2019, for a review), and who face substantial inequalities in ownership and rights over land. 2 Additionally, in contexts where formal documentation is limited and local customs determine how land holdings are managed within households and are assigned to individuals, a more disaggregated view of different types of ownership (legal versus economic, for example) and rights (selling or bequeathing, for example) is needed (Kilic and Moylan, 2016;Kang et al, 2020;Slavchevska et al, 2017).…”