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Title | Does social capital build women's assets? |
Subtitle | The long-term impacts of group-based and individual dissemination of agricultural technology in Bangladesh |
Author |
Kumar, Neha Quisumbing, Agnes R. |
ORCID | http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5429-1857 Quisumbing, Agnes |
Year | 2010 |
Abstract | 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. |
Series Name | CAPRi working paper |
Series Number | 0097 |
Publisher | International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) |
Place of publication | Washington, D.C. |
Language | English |
Record Type | Working paper |
DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.2499/CAPRiWP97 |
DOI Number | 10.2499/CAPRiWP97 |
Peer Reviewed - PR or Non-PR | Non-PR |
Subject - country location |
BANGLADESH SOUTH ASIA ASIA |
Subject - keywords |
assets Gender Impact evaluation Social capital impact assessment |
Subject - author supplied keywords | time allocation |
IFPRI Descriptors |
IFPRI1 CAPRi |
IFPRI Division | EPTD |
Access Rights | Open Access |
LOC call number | CAPRiWP97 |
Physical description | 52 pages |
IFPRI Web link | http://www.capri.cgiar.org/wp/capriwp97.asp |
RePEc Downloads | https://ideas.repec.org/p/fpr/worpps/97.html |
Requests | mailto:ifpri-library@cgiar.org |
CONTENTdm file name | 3728.cpd |
Date cataloged | 2016-09-09 |
Date modified | 2016-09-09 |
OCLC number | 778452020 |
CONTENTdm number | 3727 |
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Title | capriwp97 7 |
Access Rights | Open Access |
Requests | mailto:ifpri-library@cgiar.org |
CONTENTdm file name | 3677.pdfpage |
Date cataloged | 2015-03-04 |
Date modified | 2015-03-04 |
CONTENTdm number | 3676 |
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