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Pronatal Property Rights over Land and Fertility Outcomes: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Ethiopia

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  • Daniel Ayalew Ali
  • Klaus Deininger
  • Niels Kemper

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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.

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  • Daniel Ayalew Ali & Klaus Deininger & Niels Kemper, 2022. "Pronatal Property Rights over Land and Fertility Outcomes: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Ethiopia," Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 58(5), pages 951-967, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jdevst:v:58:y:2022:i:5:p:951-967
    DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2021.2013465
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    1. Qi, Shouwei & Li, Xiang & Matthews, Kent, 2024. "The Intergenerational Effect of Parental Health Shocks on Adult Children Fertility Decisions in China," Cardiff Economics Working Papers E2023/4, Cardiff University, Cardiff Business School, Economics Section.

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