Intra-Household Resource Allocation in Rural Tanzania: Why Women Care about Disclosure

Intra-Household Resource Allocation: An Inferential Approach

If household income is pooled and then allocated to maximize welfare then income under the control of mothers and fathers should have the same impact on demand. With survey data on family health and nutrition in Brazil, the equality of parental income effects is rejected. Unearned income in the hands of a mother has a bigger effect on her family's health than income under the control of a fathe...

Age bias, but no gender bias, in the intra-household resource allocation for health care in rural Burkina Faso.

Household survey data, time allocation data, and qualitative interviews were used to examine whether households allocate their resources for health care differently between age and gender groups. Households allocated significantly fewer resources to the health care of sick children compared to that of sick adults. In contrast there were no such differences with regard to gender. The underlying ...

Rural Women, Informal Sector and Household Economy in Tanzania

Income Transfers, Marital Dissolution and Intra-Household Resource Allocation: Evidence from Rural Mexico

A growing number of countries have introduced transfer programs in which funds are specifically targeted to mothers. Alternative economic models of the family suggest that such programs may or may not affect the spending patterns of families that remain intact. Some models also suggest that providing income to mothers may lead to an increase in family dissolution. I use data from the experiment...

Early Health Shocks, Intra-household Resource Allocation and Child Outcomes.

An open question in the literature is whether families compensate or reinforce the impact of child health shocks. Discussions usually focus on one dimension of child investment. This paper examines multiple dimensions using household survey data on Chinese child twins whose average age is 11. We find that, compared with a twin sibling who did not suffer from negative early health shocks at ages...