Widowhood and Asset Inheritance in Sub‐Saharan Africa: Empirical Evidence from 15 Countries

By Amber Peterman. 2012

113 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Gender Studies, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Urban Studies

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In Gender Studies

1. A. Quisumbing
2. Ruth S. Meinzen-Dick
3. Amber Peterman
4. John C. Anyanwu
5. Nidhiya Menon
6. Yana van der Meulen Rodgers
7. Julia A. Behrman
8. Cheryl R. Doss

In Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health

1. John C. Anyanwu
2. Nidhiya Menon

In Urban Studies

1. John C. Anyanwu
2. Huong Nguyen
3. Nidhiya Menon
4. Yana van der Meulen Rodgers

Citations in the corpus

• Women’s Land Rights and Children’s Human Capital in Vietnam (2014, background): “In Sub-Saharan Africa, Peterman (2012) noted that in a sample of households with widows in fifteen countries, the total value of”
• Gender, assets, and agricultural development programs: A conceptual framework: (2011, background): “For example, divorce or death of a husband can lead to women losing their assets especially in cases where marriage is governed under customary laws that do not protect women’s rights to property (Peterman 2010).”
• Working Paper 180 - Marital Status, Household Size and Poverty in Nigeria: Evidence from the 2009-2010 Survey Data (2013, background): “However, in a recent study, Peterman (2012), in a sample of 15 Sub-Saharan African countries, shows that about 47% of widows or their children received properties after the death of their husbands. This reached a high of 66% in Rwanda, 60% in Namibia, 57% in Senegal and Nigeria, and 53% in Tanzania.”