Does social capital build women's assets? The long-term impacts of group-based and individual dissemination of agricultural technology in Bangladesh
This paper investigates the long-term impact of agricultural technologies, disseminated using different implementation modalities, on men's and women's asset accumulation in rural Bangladesh. Data were collected in 1996-97 to examine the effects of the adoption of new vegetable varieties and polycul...
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| author | Kumar, Neha Quisumbing, Agnes R. |
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| description | This paper investigates the long-term impact of agricultural technologies, disseminated using different implementation modalities, on men's and women's asset accumulation in rural Bangladesh. Data were collected in 1996-97 to examine the effects of the adoption of new vegetable varieties and polyculture fishpond management technologies on household resource allocation, incomes, and nutrition, and a followup survey was conducted ten years later. We make three types of comparisons using nearest neighbor matching, comparing (1) early and late adopters of the technology; (2) NGO members with access to the technology and those without access to the technology; and (3) NGO members vs. non-NGO members. Our results suggest that implementation modalities are important in determining the impact of new technologies on men's and women's asset accumulation. Women's assets increase more relative to men's when technologies are disseminated through women's groups. These findings are robust to controls for unobserved household-level characteristics. These results suggest that social capital, as embodied through women's groups, not only serves as a substitute for physical assets in the short run, but helps to build up women's asset portfolios in the long run. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1542892025-01-10T06:37:47Z Does social capital build women's assets? The long-term impacts of group-based and individual dissemination of agricultural technology in Bangladesh Kumar, Neha Quisumbing, Agnes R. assets gender impact assessment social capital time use patterns This paper investigates the long-term impact of agricultural technologies, disseminated using different implementation modalities, on men's and women's asset accumulation in rural Bangladesh. Data were collected in 1996-97 to examine the effects of the adoption of new vegetable varieties and polyculture fishpond management technologies on household resource allocation, incomes, and nutrition, and a followup survey was conducted ten years later. We make three types of comparisons using nearest neighbor matching, comparing (1) early and late adopters of the technology; (2) NGO members with access to the technology and those without access to the technology; and (3) NGO members vs. non-NGO members. Our results suggest that implementation modalities are important in determining the impact of new technologies on men's and women's asset accumulation. Women's assets increase more relative to men's when technologies are disseminated through women's groups. These findings are robust to controls for unobserved household-level characteristics. These results suggest that social capital, as embodied through women's groups, not only serves as a substitute for physical assets in the short run, but helps to build up women's asset portfolios in the long run. 2010 2024-10-01T14:00:39Z 2024-10-01T14:00:39Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/154289 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Kumar, Neha; Quisumbing, Agnes R. 2010. Does social capital build women's assets? The long-term impacts of group-based and individual dissemination of agricultural technology in Bangladesh. CAPRi Working Paper 0097. https://doi.org/10.2499/CAPRiWP97. |
| spellingShingle | assets gender impact assessment social capital time use patterns Kumar, Neha Quisumbing, Agnes R. Does social capital build women's assets? The long-term impacts of group-based and individual dissemination of agricultural technology in Bangladesh |
| title | Does social capital build women's assets? The long-term impacts of group-based and individual dissemination of agricultural technology in Bangladesh |
| title_full | Does social capital build women's assets? The long-term impacts of group-based and individual dissemination of agricultural technology in Bangladesh |
| title_fullStr | Does social capital build women's assets? The long-term impacts of group-based and individual dissemination of agricultural technology in Bangladesh |
| title_full_unstemmed | Does social capital build women's assets? The long-term impacts of group-based and individual dissemination of agricultural technology in Bangladesh |
| title_short | Does social capital build women's assets? The long-term impacts of group-based and individual dissemination of agricultural technology in Bangladesh |
| title_sort | does social capital build women s assets the long term impacts of group based and individual dissemination of agricultural technology in bangladesh |
| topic | assets gender impact assessment social capital time use patterns |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/154289 |
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