Control and Ownership of Assets Within Rural Ethiopian Households
利用埃塞俄比亚农村家庭数据，研究夫妻间生产性资产的控制权和继承权如何分配，发现资产的所有权、婚姻内控制权和离婚/继承时的处置权之间关联有限。
This article investigates how the control and devolution of productive assets are allocated among husband and wife. Theory predicts that bargaining power within marriage depends on the division of assets upon divorce and on control over assets during marriage. Using detailed household data from rural Ethiopia, we show that assets brought to marriage, ownership of assets, control within marriage, and disposition upon death or divorce are only partly related. Productive resources are controlled by the household head. Disposition upon death or divorce only loosely depends on individual ownership during marriage but control is associated with larger claims upon divorce. Assets brought into marriage have little impact on disposition upon death, but matter in case of divorce.