Women's Property Rights and Gendered Policies: Implications for Women's Long-term Welfare in Rural Tanzania
利用坦桑尼亚农村13年面板数据，研究发现社区层面女性财产和继承权的改善显著提升了女性外出就业、自雇和收入，且效果不限于边缘群体。
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.