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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"household bargaining"”.
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Intra-household bargaining in a democratic South Africa
Adding to the literature on intra-household bargaining in South Africa, this paper builds on the results obtained by Maitra and Ray (2003). They find that it matters who receives the income within the household as to how it is spent. This conclusion leads to a rejection of the unitary household …
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Essays on Intra-Household Bargaining Power of Women in India
… investigates the factors that affect women's bargaining power within the household, in India. The first chapter introduces the literature on household bargaining mostly by describing how household outcomes like children's health indicators and expenditure pattern change with increase in …
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Transfers Within the Family: Evidence for the United States, Mexico and Burkina Faso
The third chapter examines the link between intrahousehold bargaining power and inter-vivos transfers for households in Burkina Faso. It presents a new measure of bargaining power based on the residual from a regression of bride price on detailed characteristics of the wife's family. This residual …
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Empirical studies of bio-cultural commitments and economic choices
… article of my thesis is titled 'Gender-neutral household bargaining in the absence of divorce laws'. Using the collective model of household bargaining, I find that analysing couples from the perspective of high-wage partner relative to low-wage partner ensures key bargaining factors are …
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Empirical studies of bio-cultural commitments and economic choices
… article of my thesis is titled 'Gender-neutral household bargaining in the absence of divorce laws'. Using the collective model of household bargaining, I find that analysing couples from the perspective of high-wage partner relative to low-wage partner ensures key bargaining factors are …
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Social networks, bargaining power within couples, and maternal health care in Tanzania
… how these issues relate to social networks and bargaining power within couples. These issues are interrelated and are discussed in three essays. The first essay investigates the impact of information externalities in social networks on the use of antenatal services. Particular emphasis is placed …
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ESSAYS ON THE ECONOMICS OF IMMIGRATION AND INTERGENERATIONAL MOBILITY
… recently available large-scale administrative, household, and firm data, as well as latest developments in causal inference techniques, this dissertation makes forays into three relatively uncharted research areas on these topics. On the economic impact of immigration, the first chapter examines …
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Matrilineal Asset Inheritance, Female Bargaining Power, and Household Welfare in Malawi
… identification of the effect of increased female bargaining power on household consumption decisions. I use the matrilineal ethnicity of the head of household as an instrument for the share of total household land inherited by the female head or male head’s wife. I find that child’s height-for-age …
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Intergenerational Caregiving Between Parents and Their Adult Children: Evidence From a Study of Older Americans
… essay, ""Resource Transfers of Married Households to Parents According to Decision-Making Power,"" investigates whether intra-household bargaining power affects couples' caregiving decisions during instances of competing parental demands for assistance. The primary focus is on examining …
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ECONOMICS AND EMPOWERMENT: CATALYSTS OR COMPETITORS?
… women from impoverished, socially marginalized households into Self Help Groups. Simultaneously, activities such as micro-finance and technical assistance for agricultural livelihoods are taken up by the project and routed to the beneficiaries via these institutions; these institutions also …
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Essays in Gender and Labor Economics
… young children. The first chapter examines how household bargaining affects childcare expenditure among heterosexual couples with children. Traditional models assume income pooling when allocating resources towards consumption expenditure, but this study uses a household bargaining approach, …
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The migrant network effect : an empirical analysis of rural-to-urban migration in South Africa
… This connection is measured by being part of a household in the baseline wave that contains somebody with current or recent experience as a labour migrant. In line with international migration literature, the empirical results suggest that access to a migrant network increases the likelihood of …
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Margins in the mountains: poverty dynamics in India’s western and eastern Ghats
… an integrated methodological approach to explore household poverty dynamics in three mountainous regions in south India. Nine hundred household surveys and eight focus group discussions were conducted amongst landless, landed and scheduled tribal (ST) groups to answer four specific research …
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Food security in India
… on food security. The third chapter asks whether households fully smooth consumption in the face of fluctuations in income. In the first chapter (co-authored with Kathy Baylis and Ben Crost), we examine the effect of the PDS program on labor supply and wages. Our empirical analysis exploits …
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Empirical studies in public economics in developing countries
… motivated me in turn: one, the effect of household institutions on the provision of old age security; and two, the effect of political institutions on government policy and performance. Chapter 1, entitled Inter-generational Transfers and Intra-household Bargaining: Evidence from …
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Income Shocks and the Acceptance of Intimate Partner Violence in Indonesia
… this paper focuses on changes in intra-household resources from negative shocks to male-sourced income. The setting and context takes place in coastal communities in Indonesia, where fishing is a main source ofincome generated primarily by men. This paper uses satellite-derived fishing …