Land Inheritance and Schooling in Matrilineal Societies: Evidence from Sumatra

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Type:	Working Paper
Author:	Quisumbing, Agnes R.; Otsuka, Keijiro
Date:	2001
Agency:	CGIAR System-Wide Program on Property Rights and Collective Action, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, DC
Series:	CAPRi Working Paper No. 14
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/4033
Sector:	Land Tenure & Use Social Organization
Region:	East Asia
Subject(s):	land tenure and use inheritance education gender
Abstract:	"This paper explores statistically the implications of the shift from communal to individualized tenure on the distribution of land and schooling between sons and daughters in matrilineal societies, based on a Sumatra case study. The inheritance system is evolving from a strictly matrilineal system to a more egalitarian system in which sons and daughters inherit the type of land which is more intensive in their own work effort. While gender bias is either non-existent or small in land inheritance, daughters tend to be disadvantaged with respect to schooling. The gender gap in schooling, however, appears to be closing for the generation of younger children."

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