Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Ethiopia

Ali, Daniel Ayalew; Deininger, Klaus; Kemper, Niels

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

2015

Ali, Daniel Ayalew | Deininger, Klaus | Kemper, Niels

This study exploits a natural experiment to investigate the impact of land reform on the fertility outcomes of households in rural Ethiopia. Public policies and customs created a situation where Ethiopian households could influence their usufruct rights to land via a demographic expansion of the family. The study evaluates the impact of the abolishment of these pronatal property rights on fertility outcomes. By matching aggregated census data before and after the reform with administrative data on the reform, a difference-in-differences approach between reform and non-reform districts is used to assess the impact of the reform on fertility outcomes. The impact appears to be large. The study estimates that women in rural areas reduced their life-time fertility by 1.2 children due to the reform. Robustness checks show that the impact estimates are not biased by spillovers or policy endogeneity.

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World Bank, Washington, DC

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Total fertility rate; Number of children; Lifetime fertility; Development policy; Live birth; Political decision; Family ties; Expenditures; Fertility rate; Progress; Environmental; Woman; Economic welfare; World population policies; Committee on population; Climatic conditions; Women of childbearing age; Population census; Newborn; Policy research; Newborn child; Policy makers; Early marriages; Population problem; Natural resource base; Census data; Population size; Ownership of land; Mother; Inheritance; Family planning information; Labor market; Reproductive decisions; Externalities; Population matters; Childbearing; Fertility behavior; Political economy; Childbearing age; Population development; World population; Family members; Policy change; Old-age; Fertility rates; Enumeration areas; Policy research working paper; Entitlements; Census; Workshop; Household size; Policy; Public policy; Number of births; Larger families; Family sizes; Expectations; Spillover; Child labor; Policy discussions; Relationship between population; National research council; Human reproduction; Global development; Impact on fertility; School expenditures; Fertility behaviour; Unmarried women; Population policies; People; Respect; Fewer children; Fertility patterns; Unfpa; Economic change; Rate of population growth; Empirical analysis; Natural resource; Present value

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English

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Working Paper; Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper; Publications & Research

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

2015

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