Intrahousehold Bargaining and Resource Allocation in Developing Countries

Policy makers and development practitioners intuitively expect that women's bargaining power will affect key development outcomes, such as the health and education of children and the wellbeing of the women themselves. In addition, women's bargaining power may affect decisions within the h...

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Main Author: Doss, Cheryl
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC: World Bank 2012
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spelling okr-10986-91452021-04-23T14:02:44Z Intrahousehold Bargaining and Resource Allocation in Developing Countries Doss, Cheryl World Development Report 2012 Policy makers and development practitioners intuitively expect that women's bargaining power will affect key development outcomes, such as the health and education of children and the wellbeing of the women themselves. In addition, women's bargaining power may affect decisions within the household that impact household production, such as the allocation of labor across various activities, including household chores, agricultural work, and wage work. Thus, it is critical to have measures of women's bargaining power that can be used in the evaluation of programs. Household members bargain over many different outcomes, whether the bargaining is explicit or implicit. These outcomes may include consumption and expenditure, production (such as the use of inputs), labor allocation, asset ownership, children's health and education, decision-making, and violence within the household. This paper provides details on the various outcome measures that have been used and the strengths and weaknesses of each for understanding women's bargaining power. 2012-06-26T15:39:29Z 2012-06-26T15:39:29Z 2012 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9145 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Washington, DC: World Bank Africa Europe and Central Asia Middle East and North Africa Latin America & Caribbean East Asia and Pacific South Asia
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Doss, Cheryl
Intrahousehold Bargaining and Resource Allocation in Developing Countries
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Middle East and North Africa
Latin America & Caribbean
East Asia and Pacific
South Asia
description Policy makers and development practitioners intuitively expect that women's bargaining power will affect key development outcomes, such as the health and education of children and the wellbeing of the women themselves. In addition, women's bargaining power may affect decisions within the household that impact household production, such as the allocation of labor across various activities, including household chores, agricultural work, and wage work. Thus, it is critical to have measures of women's bargaining power that can be used in the evaluation of programs. Household members bargain over many different outcomes, whether the bargaining is explicit or implicit. These outcomes may include consumption and expenditure, production (such as the use of inputs), labor allocation, asset ownership, children's health and education, decision-making, and violence within the household. This paper provides details on the various outcome measures that have been used and the strengths and weaknesses of each for understanding women's bargaining power.
author Doss, Cheryl
author_facet Doss, Cheryl
author_sort Doss, Cheryl
title Intrahousehold Bargaining and Resource Allocation in Developing Countries
title_short Intrahousehold Bargaining and Resource Allocation in Developing Countries
title_full Intrahousehold Bargaining and Resource Allocation in Developing Countries
title_fullStr Intrahousehold Bargaining and Resource Allocation in Developing Countries
title_full_unstemmed Intrahousehold Bargaining and Resource Allocation in Developing Countries
title_sort intrahousehold bargaining and resource allocation in developing countries
publisher Washington, DC: World Bank
publishDate 2012
url http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9145
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