Abstract
This paper evaluates effects of community-level women's property and inheritance rights on women's economic outcomes using a 13 year longitudinal panel from rural Tanzania. In the preferred model specification, inverse probability weighting is applied to a woman-level fixed effects model to control for individual-level time invariant heterogeneity and attrition. Results indicate that changes in women's property and inheritance rights are significantly associated with women's employment outside the home, self-employment and earnings. Results are not limited to sub-groups of marginalised women. Findings indicate lack of gender equity in sub-Saharan Africa may inhibit economic development for women and society as a whole.
MeSH terms
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Government* / history
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History, 20th Century
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History, 21st Century
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Public Assistance* / economics
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Public Assistance* / history
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Public Assistance* / legislation & jurisprudence
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Public Policy / economics
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Public Policy / history
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Public Policy / legislation & jurisprudence
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Social Welfare / economics
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Social Welfare / ethnology
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Social Welfare / history
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Social Welfare / legislation & jurisprudence
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Social Welfare / psychology
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Tanzania / ethnology
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Wills* / economics
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Wills* / ethnology
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Wills* / history
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Wills* / legislation & jurisprudence
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Wills* / psychology
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Women / education
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Women / history
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Women / psychology
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Women's Health* / ethnology
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Women's Health* / history
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Women's Rights* / economics
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Women's Rights* / education
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Women's Rights* / history
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Women's Rights* / legislation & jurisprudence