Estimating the Endogenously Determined Intrahousehold Balance of Power and Its Impact on Expenditure Pattern : Evidence from Nepal
The collective approach to household behavior relaxes the restrictive features of the unitary model by specifying household welfare as a weighted combination of the individuals' utilities. But the weights are assumed fixed or exogenous to the...
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Format: | Policy Research Working Paper |
Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, D.C.
2013
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Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2002/03/1752443/estimating-endogenously-determined-intrahousehold-balance-power-impact-expenditure-pattern-evidence-nepal http://hdl.handle.net/10986/14815 |
Summary: | The collective approach to household
behavior relaxes the restrictive features of the unitary
model by specifying household welfare as a weighted
combination of the individuals' utilities. But the
weights are assumed fixed or exogenous to the analysis. The
authors extend the collective approach by proposing and
estimating a framework where the weights are determined and
simultaneously estimated with the household outcomes. The
authors present Nepalese evidence that suggests that a
woman's share of household earnings understates her
"power" in making household decisions. An increase
in the woman's educational experience leads to a rise
in her bargaining power. The results also reveal some
interesting nonmonotonic relationships between a
woman's "power" and the household's
expenditure outcomes. |
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