Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa - A Select Annotated Bibliography with Special Reference to Irreversibilities Associated with Poor Nutrition, Health and Education

Jones, Briony; Moore, Karen

doi:10.2139/ssrn.1753649

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“…The articles in this special issue put under empirical investigation the intuitive notion that inheritance -or exclusion from inheritance -has the potential to affect the intergenerational transmission of poverty. Households' asset bundles as well as intrahousehold allocations of assets have already been linked to the intergenerational transmission of poverty (Fafchamps et al, 2009;Quisumbing, 2007b;Smith and Moore, 2006;Moore, 2001). Unequal access to and control of assets, including land and other productive resources, according to gender and age have been shown to affect patterns of expenditure on and investment in younger generations (Soto Bermant, 2008).…”

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Inheritance: A Gendered and Intergenerational Dimension of Poverty

Cooper¹,

Bird²

2012

Development Policy Review

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This collection of articles contains new and important findings concerning the scale and significance of asset transfers through inheritance among different populations, as well as the ways in which inheritance affects economic and social status and mobility. Evidence exists of women commonly losing access to assets when properties are redistributed following a spouse's death. This and the household effects of gaining or losing access to heritable property highlight the gendered and intergenerational dimensions of inheritance. As an introduction to the collection, this article provides an overview of how inheritance has been understood in poverty-related policy and research up to now. We then synthesise what the new findings presented in this collection tell us about inheritance as a crucial factor in women's poverty and the intergenerational transmission of poverty, highlighting what other researchers and policy-makers can take from this research to address the gendered and intergenerational dimensions of inheritance in different contexts.

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