Levels, correlates, and differences in human, physical, and financial assets brought into marriages by young Guatemalan adults
This article examines marriage patterns among individuals who participated as children in a nutrition supplementation trial in Guatemala and were followed up in 2002–04, at ages 25–42 years. Of all 1,062 known and alive couples, 735, or 69%, responded fully to the marriage assets questionnaire. Focu...
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| author | Quisumbing, Agnes R. Behrman, Jere R. Maluccio, John Murphy, Alexis Yount, Katherine M. |
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| description | This article examines marriage patterns among individuals who participated as children in a nutrition supplementation trial in Guatemala and were followed up in 2002–04, at ages 25–42 years. Of all 1,062 known and alive couples, 735, or 69%, responded fully to the marriage assets questionnaire. Focus of the analysis is on the birth cohorts born prior to 1974, a total of 1,058 intervention participants, among whom four-fifths of men (82%) and of women (78%) were married at the time of the 2002–04 survey. Basic patterns are examined in current marital status, age at first marriage and related milestones, human capital assets brought to marriage (e.g., schooling attainment, cognitive ability, literacy, and pre-marital work experience), and physical assets and savings accounts brought to marriage. Measures of husbands' human capital at marriage are positively correlated with wives' human capital, but are consistently higher. Husbands also bring substantially more physical and financial assets than wives. A number of interesting patterns emerge, including (1) changes in the composition of assets that women bring to marriage from physical to human assets, (2) declining gaps in age and premarital work experience between husbands and wives, and (3) increasing gaps in schooling attainment and cognitive ability between husbands and wives. Given conflicting directions of change in spousal gaps in human, physical and financial assets, their net effect on changes over time in the bargaining power of husbands and wives is uncertain and deserves further investigation. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1723522025-02-19T14:07:01Z Levels, correlates, and differences in human, physical, and financial assets brought into marriages by young Guatemalan adults Quisumbing, Agnes R. Behrman, Jere R. Maluccio, John Murphy, Alexis Yount, Katherine M. assets marriage adults youth This article examines marriage patterns among individuals who participated as children in a nutrition supplementation trial in Guatemala and were followed up in 2002–04, at ages 25–42 years. Of all 1,062 known and alive couples, 735, or 69%, responded fully to the marriage assets questionnaire. Focus of the analysis is on the birth cohorts born prior to 1974, a total of 1,058 intervention participants, among whom four-fifths of men (82%) and of women (78%) were married at the time of the 2002–04 survey. Basic patterns are examined in current marital status, age at first marriage and related milestones, human capital assets brought to marriage (e.g., schooling attainment, cognitive ability, literacy, and pre-marital work experience), and physical assets and savings accounts brought to marriage. Measures of husbands' human capital at marriage are positively correlated with wives' human capital, but are consistently higher. Husbands also bring substantially more physical and financial assets than wives. A number of interesting patterns emerge, including (1) changes in the composition of assets that women bring to marriage from physical to human assets, (2) declining gaps in age and premarital work experience between husbands and wives, and (3) increasing gaps in schooling attainment and cognitive ability between husbands and wives. Given conflicting directions of change in spousal gaps in human, physical and financial assets, their net effect on changes over time in the bargaining power of husbands and wives is uncertain and deserves further investigation. 2005-06 2025-01-29T12:59:50Z 2025-01-29T12:59:50Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/172352 en Limited Access SAGE Publications Quisumbing, Agnes R.; Behrman, Jere R.; Maluccio, John; Murphy, Alexis; Yount, Katherine M. 2005. Levels, correlates, and differences in human, physical, and financial assets brought into marriages by young Guatemalan adults. Food and Nutrition Bulletin [Supplement 1: The Human Capital 2002-04 study in Guatemala: a follow-up to the INCAP longitudical study 1969-77] 26(3): S55-S67. https://doi.org/10.1177/15648265050262s106 |
| spellingShingle | assets marriage adults youth Quisumbing, Agnes R. Behrman, Jere R. Maluccio, John Murphy, Alexis Yount, Katherine M. Levels, correlates, and differences in human, physical, and financial assets brought into marriages by young Guatemalan adults |
| title | Levels, correlates, and differences in human, physical, and financial assets brought into marriages by young Guatemalan adults |
| title_full | Levels, correlates, and differences in human, physical, and financial assets brought into marriages by young Guatemalan adults |
| title_fullStr | Levels, correlates, and differences in human, physical, and financial assets brought into marriages by young Guatemalan adults |
| title_full_unstemmed | Levels, correlates, and differences in human, physical, and financial assets brought into marriages by young Guatemalan adults |
| title_short | Levels, correlates, and differences in human, physical, and financial assets brought into marriages by young Guatemalan adults |
| title_sort | levels correlates and differences in human physical and financial assets brought into marriages by young guatemalan adults |
| topic | assets marriage adults youth |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/172352 |
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