“…First, husband's, wife's or jointly owned assets may not be equally important to household livelihoods, and it is more likely that the household (acting collectively) would decide to preserve that asset that is most important to generating the household's incomes. In some societies, this might be a large asset such as land, which tends to be owned by men, given documented gender inequalities in landownership (Doss, Kovarik, Peterman, Quisumbing, & van den Bold, ; Kieran, Sproule, Doss, Quisumbing, & Kim, ). Second, even for the same type of asset, differences in bargaining power within the household may imply that the person with less bargaining power has a higher probability of losing that asset.…”