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

Brockington, Dan, Coast, Ernestina ORCID: 0000-0002-8703-307X, Mdee, Anna, Howland, Olivia and Randall, Sara (2021) Assets and domestic units: methodological challenges for longitudinal studies of poverty dynamics. In: Brockington, Dan and Noe, Christine, (eds.) Prosperity in Rural Africa?: Insights into Wealth, Assets, and Poverty from Longitudinal Studies in Tanzania. Oxford University Press (U.S.), New York, NY, 70 - 84. ISBN 9780198865872

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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. And this dynamism means that any claim about changing prosperity must also include other important claims about how prosperity should be measured and the stability of the social units which experience that prosperity. The chapter reviews the challenges of using assets to understand poverty dynamics, and tracking the domestic units that own and manage assets. It argues that changing asset ownership can be tracked, but who owns them and how their benefits are distributed—and how those distributions change—remains key.

Item Type:	Book Section
Official URL:	https://global.oup.com/academic/product/prosperity...
Additional Information:	© 2021 The Authors
Divisions:	International Development
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions
Date Deposited:	05 Jan 2022 11:21
Last Modified:	11 Dec 2024 18:05
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/113321

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