Assets and domestic units: methodological challenges for longitudinal studies of poverty dynamics

Dan Brockington, Ernestina Coast (), A Mdee, O Howland and Sara Randall

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Abstract: Tracking change in assets access and ownership in longitudinal research is difficult. Assets are rarely assigned to individuals. Their benefit and management are spread across domestic units which morph over time. We review the challenges of using assets to understand poverty dynamics, and tracking the domestic units that own and manage assets. Using case studies from longitudinal research we demonstrate that assets can afford useful insights into important change.

Keywords: assets; domestic units; longitudinal studies; poverty dynamics; Tanzania (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-11-03
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Published in Journal of Peasant Studies, 3, November, 2019. ISSN: 0306-6150

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