Intrahousehold allocation and gender relations: new empirical evidence from four developing countries

cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centre
cg.coverage.countryBangladesh
cg.coverage.countryEthiopia
cg.coverage.countryIndonesia
cg.coverage.countrySouth Africa
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2BD
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2ET
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2ID
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2ZA
cg.coverage.regionAsia
cg.coverage.regionSouthern Asia
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africa
cg.coverage.regionSouth-eastern Asia
cg.coverage.regionSouthern Africa
cg.creator.identifierAgnes Quisumbing: 0000-0002-5429-1857
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Archive
cg.number84
cg.placeWashington, DC
cg.reviewStatusInternal Review
dc.contributor.authorQuisumbing, Agnes R.
dc.contributor.authorMaluccio, John A.
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-24T12:43:09Zen
dc.date.available2024-10-24T12:43:09Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/156083
dc.titleIntrahousehold allocation and gender relations: new empirical evidence from four developing countriesen
dcterms.abstractThe paper reviews recent theory and empirical evidence testing unitary versus collective models of the household. In contrast to the unitary model, the collective model posits that individuals within households have different preferences and do not pool their income. Moreover, the collective model predicts that intrahousehold allocations reflect differences in preferences and ""bargaining power"" of individuals within the household. Using new household data sets from Bangladesh, Indonesia, Ethiopia, and South Africa, we present measures of individual characteristics that are highly correlated with bargaining power, namely human capital and in ividually-controlled assets, evaluated at the time of marriage. In all country case studies we reject the unitary model as a description of household behavior, but to different degrees. Results suggest that assets controlled by women have a positive and significant effect on expenditure allocations toward the next generation, such as education and children's clothing. We also examine individual-level education outcomes and find that parents do not have identical preferences toward sons and daughters within or across countries.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationQuisumbing, Agnes R.; Maluccio, John. 2000. Intrahousehold allocation and gender relations: new empirical evidence from four developing countries. FCND Discussion Paper 84. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/156083en
dcterms.extent80 p.
dcterms.isPartOfFCND Discussion Paperen
dcterms.issued2000
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll2/id/125398
dcterms.subjecthousehold budgeten
dcterms.subjectgenderen
dcterms.subjectincomeen
dcterms.typeWorking Paper

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