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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"intrahousehold"”.
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Land As Power, An Analysis of Female Land Inheritance and Intrahousehold Bargaining in Rwanda
… land inheritance lead to increases in female intrahousehold bargaining power? Analysis of an expansive Rwandan household survey dataset from 2010-2011 suggests that female land inheritances are positively associated with female intrahousehold bargaining power. The results support the relative …
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Gender and Resource Allocation Decisions in Farm Households: Evidence from a South African Land Reform Programme
… in a land reform program make Pareto efficient intrahousehold consumption decisions. Using evaluation survey data of beneficiary households participating in South Africa’s Land Redistribution for Agricultural Development (LRAD) program, I estimate and test the unitary and collective models of …
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The economics of social subordination : gender relations and market failure in the highlands of Papua New Guinea
… world market, and domestic pricing policy, at an intrahousehold level. That is individual incentives are not determined by world markets but by household power structures, in particular the pervasive nature of patriarchy; this provides the basis for gendered market failure in the Highlands of PNG. …
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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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Eliciting farmer preferences for rice varietal trait improvements using an experimental methodology based on investment games
… class cluster analysis; and (iii) gender and intrahousehold dynamics in the decision-making process regarding investment in VTIs. The results from the analysis of farmers’ investment preferences suggest that Filipino farmers prioritize investment in stress tolerance traits such as lodging …
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Growing Cotton: Household Negotiations in Export-Oriented Agriculture in Africa, Burkina Faso
… contributes to ongoing theoretical debates on intrahousehold relations, and women's access to resources in a growing cash crop economy in Africa, and the Global South. It also revisits the discussions phrased in terms of agency and rationality in actions among farming households. More broadly, …
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Growing cotton: Household negotiations in export-oriented agriculture in Africa, Burkina Faso
… contributes to ongoing theoretical debates on intrahousehold relations, and women’s access to resources in a growing cash crop economy in Africa, and the Global South. It also revisits the discussions phrased in terms of agency and rationality in actions among farming households. More broadly, …
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Vehicle activity patterns and electrification potential
… in terms of BEV adoption potential. Furthermore, intrahousehold vehicle-sharing shows promise for increasing BEV adoption potential. Methods and insights from this research can help decision-makers identify efficient policy options for accelerating BEV adoption.
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Three essays in development economics
… inequality within the household, analyzing how intrahousehold allocation of educational resources in rural China responds to inequities in endowment between children. In the first chapter, I evaluate the impact of village-level land reallocations in China on household economic outcomes. Since …
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Bargaining Power, Gender Norms, and Intimate Partner Violence: An Examination of Latin American Countries
… women’s employment consistently enhances their intrahousehold bargaining power across all countries, highlighting the empowering role of employment. Instead, the path from bargaining power to IPV was nuanced and confounded by control variables such as wealth. Furthermore, the direct path from …
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Children, investments in education and poverty in Malawi
… income and schooling costs in the presence of intrahousehold schooling bias against non-biological children. To this end, we construct a two-period model of intrahousehold schooling bias. The model predicts that there is an asymmetry in the impact of changes in costs and income on schooling in …
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A needs-based approach to activity generation for travel demand analysis/
… extended to model social interactions including intrahousehold activity allocation and joint activity participation by households and social circles. An extension to a dynamic needs-based activity generation model is also discussed, which may be integrated with transportation simulators to …
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Essays in Labor Economics
… working conditions, and how it in turn affects intrahousehold bargaining and task allocation within the household. In the first chapter we study which work arrangements new mothers choose when allowed to do so, and whether these work arrangements affect their labor supply choices. We exploit the …
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Barriers to the adoption and optimal use of savings and health technologies
… and a variety of alternative models of intrahousehold resource allocation, but consistent with the proposed model of strategic savings. Savings misallocation due to strategic behavior may be substantial: in the experiment poorly matched couples forgo at least 64 percent more interest …
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Market work and household production in Brazil
This thesis is composed of three papers in which the research questions are related to the double burden that accrues to Brazilian women. The first and second papers address this issue by looking at expenditure decisions about home production. The first paper examines whether the expenditure …
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Factors associated with partial health insurance coverage among households in Malawi
… health insurance coverage determinants and not intrahousehold health insurance coverage status determinants. In Malawi, this is coupled with a low health insurance uptake. There is also limited information on factors influencing households to insure some but not all members. This study therefore …
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Three Essays on Climate Change Adaptation in Rural African Communities
… women's role in income generation, and favorable intrahousehold power dynamics. The chapter concludes that even gender aware community-based adaptation initiatives struggle to engage with issues of unequal power relations, failing to ensure that women's voices are actively considered and included …
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Three Essays On Climate Change Adaptation In Rural African Communities
… women’s role in income generation, and favorable intrahousehold power dynamics. The chapter concludes that even gender aware community-based adaptation initiatives struggle to engage with issues of unequal power relations, failing to ensure that women’s voices are actively considered and included …
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Essays on Marriage Market and Intra-Household Allocation
The importance of the family as a social group cannot be overestimated.1 Becker was the first to point out that the tools of economic analysis (and in particular, price theory) could be applied to the analysis of such demographic phenomena as marriage.2 While implications of his model have been …
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