Do shocks affect men's and women's assets differently? Evidence from Bangladesh and Uganda
Using panel data, this article tests whether shocks affect men's and women's assets differently in Bangladesh and Uganda. Across countries, covariate and idiosyncratic shocks have different effects on men's, women's and jointly owned assets. Jointly held land and assets were better insured against f...
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| author | Quisumbing, Agnes R. Kumar, Neha Behrman, Julia A. |
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| description | Using panel data, this article tests whether shocks affect men's and women's assets differently in Bangladesh and Uganda. Across countries, covariate and idiosyncratic shocks have different effects on men's, women's and jointly owned assets. Jointly held land and assets were better insured against food price increases in Bangladesh, unlike jointly held assets and wives’ assets in Uganda. Weather shocks affect husbands’ and wives’ assets differently in both countries. Reflecting contextual differences, illness shocks negatively affected wives’ land in Bangladesh, while death reduced husbands’ non‐land assets. In Uganda, fuel price increases eroded husbands’ landholdings, while drought shocks reduced wives’ assets. Ugandan husbands’ assets were better protected against covariate shocks than wives’ assets. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1467882025-02-24T06:46:45Z Do shocks affect men's and women's assets differently? Evidence from Bangladesh and Uganda Quisumbing, Agnes R. Kumar, Neha Behrman, Julia A. gender death shock assets developing countries mortality women Using panel data, this article tests whether shocks affect men's and women's assets differently in Bangladesh and Uganda. Across countries, covariate and idiosyncratic shocks have different effects on men's, women's and jointly owned assets. Jointly held land and assets were better insured against food price increases in Bangladesh, unlike jointly held assets and wives’ assets in Uganda. Weather shocks affect husbands’ and wives’ assets differently in both countries. Reflecting contextual differences, illness shocks negatively affected wives’ land in Bangladesh, while death reduced husbands’ non‐land assets. In Uganda, fuel price increases eroded husbands’ landholdings, while drought shocks reduced wives’ assets. Ugandan husbands’ assets were better protected against covariate shocks than wives’ assets. 2018-01-10 2024-06-21T09:08:45Z 2024-06-21T09:08:45Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146788 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/154286 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/151345 Limited Access Wiley Quisumbing, Agnes R.; Kumar, Neha; and Behrman, Julia A. 2018. Do shocks affect men's and women's assets differently? Evidence from Bangladesh and Uganda. Development Policy Review 36(1): 3-34. https://doi.org/10.1111/dpr.12235 |
| spellingShingle | gender death shock assets developing countries mortality women Quisumbing, Agnes R. Kumar, Neha Behrman, Julia A. Do shocks affect men's and women's assets differently? Evidence from Bangladesh and Uganda |
| title | Do shocks affect men's and women's assets differently? Evidence from Bangladesh and Uganda |
| title_full | Do shocks affect men's and women's assets differently? Evidence from Bangladesh and Uganda |
| title_fullStr | Do shocks affect men's and women's assets differently? Evidence from Bangladesh and Uganda |
| title_full_unstemmed | Do shocks affect men's and women's assets differently? Evidence from Bangladesh and Uganda |
| title_short | Do shocks affect men's and women's assets differently? Evidence from Bangladesh and Uganda |
| title_sort | do shocks affect men s and women s assets differently evidence from bangladesh and uganda |
| topic | gender death shock assets developing countries mortality women |
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