Control and Ownership of Assets Within Rural Ethiopian Households

By Marcel Fafchamps, A. Quisumbing. 2002

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies, Safety Research

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Gender and the distribution of wealth in developing countries (2006, background): “Wives generally inherited land from either a previous husband or his family, rather than from their own parents (Fafchamps and Quisumbing 2002: 58-9).”
Assets at Marriage in Rural Ethiopia (2005, unknown): “As Fafchamps and Quisumbing (2002) show, this is not the case in our study area where brideprice and dowry per se are very small compared to assets brought to marriage by the spouses.”
Disentangling Bargaining Power from Individual and Household Level to Institutions: Evidence on Women’s Position in Ethiopia (2010, background): “74% of the women have undergone FGM according to the survey data we use (DHS, 2005), and polygamy still occurs 1 (Bevan and Pankhurst, 2007), while traditional practices and customs dominate marriage practices, in spite of the legal reforms (Fafchamps and Quisumbing, 2002).”
The Effect of Land Access on Youth Employment and Migration Decisions: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia (2018, unknown): “disfavor women in land inheritance (Fafchamps and Quisumbing, 2002) and in educational and employment opportunities (Croppenstedt et al.”
Marriage, Bequest, and Assortative Matching in Rural Ethiopia (2005, background): “Assets brought to marriage affect the disposition of land and livestock upon divorce, although the correspondence is not exact, contrary to what is often assumed in empirical work on intrahousehold issues (Fafchamps and Quisumbing 2002).”
Gender, assets, and agricultural development programs: A conceptual framework: (2011, background): “…Indonesia, assets that women bring to marriage are associated with what they can take upon divorce and their bargaining power within the household (Fafchamps and Quisumbing 2002; Thomas, Frankenberg, and Contreras 2002); in India, ownership of a house is associated with lower incidence of…”
Using the Law to Change the Custom (2012, unknown): “From (22), we obtain @ "(f; ;v) @vM 0 if dened.”
FOOD AID AND CHILD NUTRITION IN RURAL ETHIOPIA (2003, background): “9 See Fafchamps and Quisumbing (2002) for a discussion of the representativeness of the sample.”
Who Should be Interviewed in Surveys of Household Income (2010, unknown): “…gender roles in livelihood activities, incomplete pooling of resources, and conflict among household members over the distribution of resources (Carr, 2008a; Cloud, 1986; Fafchamps & Quisumbing, 2002; Fapohunda, 1988; Fisher, Warner, & Masters, 2000; Guyer, 1986; Jones, 1986; Whitehead, 1990).”
The Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (2013, unknown): “The pilot questionnaire included questions about rights to bequeath the asset as well as rights to the asset on marital dissolution, but these were excluded from the WEAI owing to the high degree of nonresponse; possibly these are future events, and an individual may not have knowledge of those righ”
Intrahousehold Welfare in Rural Ethiopia (2009, unknown): “Further details regarding the 1997 survey round are discussed by Fafchamps and Quisumbing (2002) and Fafchamps and Quisumbing (2005a).”