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Social norms can mitigate the effectiveness of formal institutions, in particular the way legal reforms may affect women's autonomy. We examine this question in the context of ethnic variation in traditional post-marital cohabitation, i.e. matrilocality versus patrilocality. We use...
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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 …
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.e. ignoring within-household inequality). This assessment of existing approaches to measure individual inequality and poverty is …
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joint consumption. In this paper, we extend the collective model of household consumption to recover mother's, father's and … household resources, though not enough to avoid a very large extent of child poverty compared to what is found in traditional … have more command over household resources. Baseline results on children's shares are robust to using alternative …
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.e. ignoring within-household inequality). This assessment of existing approaches to measure individual inequality and poverty is …
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.e. ignoring within-household inequality). This assessment of existing approaches to measure individual inequality and poverty is …
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.e. ignoring within-household inequality). This assessment of existing approaches to measure individual inequality and poverty is …
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