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Estimating the endogenously determined intrahousehold balance of power and its impact on expenditure pattern : evidence from Nepal

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Koolwal, Gayatri
Ray, Ranjan

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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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Paper provided by The World Bank in its series Policy Research Working Paper Series with number 2814.

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Keywords: Gender and Social Development; Housing&Human Habitats; Anthropology; Public Health Promotion; Economic Theory&Research; Poverty Lines; Health Monitoring&Evaluation; Housing&Human Habitats; Environmental Economics&Policies; Anthropology;

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  1. Xu, Zeyu, 2007. "A survey on intra-household models and evidence," MPRA Paper 3763, University Library of Munich, Germany. [Downloadable!]
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