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 …

' production and welfare in Tanzania as well as the factors that influence agricultural production in the country. The analysis is … that the input subsidy programme resulted in an initial increase in maize and rice production but not in the long run and … only in a few regions. In addition, there was a decrease in total production in the southern region and the programme had …

Diversification of household activities away from agriculture is a key characteristic of economic development. We … diversification is, on average, welfare enhancing and that the most beneficial form of diversification is into household enterprises …

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 …

simultaneously increasing boys' labour input in household chores. This puts into question the existence of gender preferences in … household chores. While the general results are maintained in households with a married couple present, in de jure female … father as recipient was more likely to have positive impacts on girls' schooling, decrease boys' labour in farming while …

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 …

Social capital and political connections can play an important role in developing countries where markets fail and … institutions are weak. This paper explores their role in household micro-enterprise operation and success in the rural low …-income setting of Vietnam. We propose that social capital and political connections assist households in accessing resources …