Replication Data for: A Field of Her Own: Property Rights and Women's Agency in Myanmar

Can financial incentives lead households to register land in women's names, thereby providing them with more formal property rights? Can formal property ownership improve women's economic outcomes and change political dynamics within the household? To investigate these questions, we take advantage of a bank lending policy in Myanmar that motivates men in households with land holdings above ten acres to title the surplus land in their wives’ names. We surveyed 5,068 men and women in Myanmar about land-holding, economic activity, and gendered decision-making. We find that financial incentives provided by bank lending policies led to increases in women's formal property ownership, but these exogenously assigned rights did not manifest into greater economic empowerment or decision-making power for recipients.