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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. …
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A large body of literature suggests that consumers derive utility from gains and losses relative to a reference point. This paper shows that such reference dependence can affect savings in opposite directions depending on whether people face liquidity constraints. Existing models for wealth and...
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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 …
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assets of rice-farming households as well as the effects of technologies promoted by an Agricultural Research for Development …
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Gender disparities continue to exist in women’s control, inheritance, and ownership of land in spite of legislation directing improvements in women’s land access. Women are often excluded from traditional patrilineal inheritance systems, often lack the legal know-how or enforcement...
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This paper reviews the available data on men’s and women’s land rights, identifies what can and cannot be measured by these data, and uses these measures to assess the gaps in the land rights of women and men. Building on the conceptual framework developed in 2014 by Doss et al.,...
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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 …
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This paper reviews existing microeconomic empirical literature on gender differences in use, access, and adoption of nonland agricultural inputs in developing countries. This review focuses on four key areas: (1) technological resources, (2) natural resources, (3) human resources, and (4) social...
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