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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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Cited by:
  1. Pierre-Richard Agénor, 2012. "A Computable OLG Model for Gender and Growth Policy Analysis," Centre for Growth and Business Cycle Research Discussion Paper Series 169, Economics, The Univeristy of Manchester.
  2. Holger Seebens & Johannes Sauer, 2007. "Bargaining power and efficiency-rural households in Ethiopia," Journal of International Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 19(7), pages 895-918.
  3. Xu, Zeyu, 2007. "A survey on intra-household models and evidence," MPRA Paper 3763, University Library of Munich, Germany.
  4. Seebens, Holger, 2006. "Bargaining over Fertility in Rural Ethiopia," Proceedings of the German Development Economics Conference, Berlin 2006 25, Verein für Socialpolitik, Research Committee Development Economics.

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