This paper tests three hypotheses concerning intra-household resource allocation in rural China. First, whether … increasing the women's bargaining power alters household expenditure patterns. Second, whether households allocate fewer …: lower female outlay equivalent ratios for adult goods; greater sensitivity of household health spending to young boys than …

This paper tests three hypotheses concerning intra-household resource allocation in rural China. First, whether … increasing the women's bargaining power alters household expenditure patterns. Second, whether households allocate fewer …: lower female outlay equivalent ratios for adult goods' greater sensitivity of household health spending to young boys than …

China Household Finance Survey (CHFS) data in 2011 and 2013 including 36213 sample households. We mainly found that, with an …

minorities). We control for households' composition and economic characteristics and individuals' human capital and as well as …-age children, the gender of the child becomes as important to the analysis as the gender of the parent. With regard to household … composition, we find that in Muslim households the presence of extra adult men (of any age between 15 and 70) in the household …

Household Ethnicity Survey (CHES) to analyze coresidency patterns of rural elders in seven Chinese provinces with high …

production and peasant's family, to calculate the returns of education investment on the whole family's income. The intra-household … externality of education caused by the facts of un-separabilities in agricultural production leads to a larger return of single … member's education on household income. The externalities, together with marriage match in education, however, decrease the …

household income and consumption are fully insured against health shocks even without access to health insurance. Household … maintain investment in children's human capital during negative health shocks, which suggests that one benefit of health …

turn can be used to improve human capital accumulation, socioeconomic status, and long-run economic development. One way to … adequate infrastructure exists within their community. This study uses data from the 2013 Chinese Household Finance Survey to …

turn can be used to improve human capital accumulation, socioeconomic status, and long-run economic development. One way to … adequate infrastructure exists within their community. This study uses data from the 2013 Chinese Household Finance Survey to …