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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"intra-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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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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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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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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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
… Specifically, 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 …