The authors study the role of traditional norms in land allocation and human capital investment. The authors exploit a policy experiment in Ghana that increased the land that children from matrilineal groups can inherit from their fathers. Boys exposed to the reform received 0.9 less years of education - an effect driven by landed households, for whom the reform was binding. The authors find no effect for girls, whose inheritance was de facto unaffected...
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2017/10/01
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Article de revue
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122570
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2018/01/11
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Customary norms, inheritance, and human capital : evidence from a reform of the matrilineal system in Ghana
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human capital investment
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