Of particular interest to us is whether the impact on household asset ownership, asset wealth and household retirement behavior varied with the nativity of the household and its standing in the wealth distribution prior to the onset of the recession.
Significant interactions were found between SOC and asset ownership, asset ownership and displacement status, and marital status and displacement status.
The SF36 correlates were high with decreased illness, age, marital status, ownership asset, domestic violence, emotional, social and cognitive coping among women in the agricultural community.
A higher tendency to positive perception on HRQOL was observed with marital status, increased age, stay in the community, education, economic, employment status and ownership asset among women in the agricultural community.
Sandwiched between, we find households in the middle wealth quartiles, who endured significant losses in both asset ownership and asset values.
The variables used include income, occupation, ownership of assets, and ownership of farm land and other assets, bank savings, housing conditions and access to facilities such as sanitation, improved water supply.
Ownership of assets is important for poverty reduction, and women's control of assets is associated with positive development outcomes at the household and individual levels.
Quantitative ownership of assets (yes/no) was used as opposed to qualitative which may better differentiate the values of the assets.
Nevertheless, couples might want to think twice before transferring legal ownership of assets.
They jibe with recent economic history and the lopsided ownership of assets, particularly stocks and bonds.
