Assets are an important means of coping with adverse events in developing countries but the role of gendered ownership … is not yet fully understood. This paper investigates changes in assets owned by the household head, his spouse, or … of assets, but relative ownership varies by type of asset. …

liquidity constraints. Existing models for wealth and intertemporal choice predict that reference dependence reduces savings but … these models abstract from liquidity constraints. Introducing a liquidity constraint, I find that reference dependence can … increase optimal savings for people without access to credit. Liquidity constraints force them to take part of an income loss …

Ownership of assets is important for poverty alleviation, and women’s control of assets is associated with positive … development programs on how to incorporate gender and assets in the design, implementation, and evaluation of interventions. This … individual and household assets in seven countries in Africa and South Asia. The results show that assets both affect and are …

assets of rice-farming households as well as the effects of technologies promoted by an Agricultural Research for Development …

initial capital or asset bases to purchase land through market mechanisms. Community-based legal aid programs have been …

This background paper attempts to expand our understanding of the gender-differentiated impact of shocks on assets … Uganda and Bangladesh looking at the impact of negative shocks and positive events on men's and women's assets. We take … advantage of detailed assets and shocks modules to disaggregate the type of shock between covariate and idiosyncratic shocks and …

) natural resources, (3) human resources, and (4) social and political capital. In general, there has been more empirical …