Women's Inheritance Rights, Household Allocation, and Gender Bias

Reconsidering Gender Bias in Intra-Household Allocation in India

Reconsidering Gender Bias in Intra-Household Allocation in India Detecting gender discrimination among children in the intra-household allocation of goods from household surveys has often proven to be difficult. This paper uses some of the commonly used techniques in this field to analyze education expenditures in India. Contrary to most previous research, I find evidence of discrimination agai...

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 ...

Intra-Household Gender Bias and Child Labor Persistence in Brazil

In this paper we examine gender differences in the inter-generational persistence of child labor within the context of intra-household resource allocation. We begin by building an intra-household allocation model where fathers and mothers may affect the education investment and the child labor participation of their sons and daughters differently due to differences in the children's human capit...

Public Services and Household Allocation in Africa: Does Gender Matter?

Personality Traits, Intra-household Allocation and the Gender Wage Gap∗

A model of how personality traits affect household time and resource allocation decisions and wages is developed and estimated. In the model, households choose between two behavioral modes: cooperative or noncooperative. Spouses receive wage offers and allocate time to supplying labor market hours and to producing a public good. Personality traits, measured by the so-called Big Five traits, can...