in educational outcomes might be attributed to an uneven allocation of household resources towards the schooling of boys …

This paper is intended to bridge the theoretical literature describing efficient intra-household behaviour and the … spouses. It examines the key elements of the collective model and discusses its relevance to analysing intra-household …

An experimental design using treatments of a voluntary contribution mechanism is used to test household efficiency …. Efficiency is decisively rejected in all treatments contrary to the assumption of most household models. Information on initial …. -- household efficiency ; intra-household models ; experimental games ; Ethiopia …

We assess the effect of female bargaining power on the share of educational expenditures in the household budget in … India. We augment the collective household model by endogenizing female bargaining power and use a three-stage least squares … approach to simultaneously estimate female bargaining power, per capita household expenditure and budget share of education …

household chores. While the general results are maintained in households with a married couple present, in de jure female … simultaneously increasing boys' labour input in household chores. This puts into question the existence of gender preferences in …

obtained from the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys. It assesses total inequality and its within-household component for two … and break it down into betweenhousehold and within-household components. Overall inequality tends to be higher in … than half of the total inequality. Intra-household inequality is an issue in countries even when, on average, there is …

This paper applies recent developments in collective model estimation to elicit the household resource sharing rule, i ….e. the amount of household resources accruing to fathers, mothers, and their children among African families in South Africa … specific household members, to be used for identification. We rely on a collective model of household consumption that accounts …

the complexities of household arrangements and migration processes for families. In this mixed methods study, we use …