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Abstract
This study attempts to analyze changing patterns of land transfers and schooling
investments by gender over three generations in customary land areas of Ghana's
Western Region. Although traditional matrilineal inheritance rules deny landownership
rights to women, women have increasingly acquired land through gifts and other means,
thereby reducing the gender gap in landownership. The gender gap in schooling has also
declined significantly, though it persists. We attribute such changes to the increase in
women's bargaining power due to an agricultural technology that increased the demand
for women's labor, contributing to the reduction of "social" discrimination as well as
weak "parental" discrimination.