This paper examines the determinants of female autonomy within households in a developing country. In particular, we investigate the relative contributions of earned versus unearned income in enhancing women's autonomy and the role of employment outside of their husband's farm. In a simple...

This paper addresses the question: why does capital typically hire labor rather than the other way around? It models a situation in which a capitalist (owner of money capital) can choose between lending out his capital for production and using it to set up production under his own supervision....

This paper investigates how access to credit might impinge on risk behavior. It demonstrates that credit, by facilitating the pooling of risk across time, renders a risk-averse individual more capable of absorbing risk. Some implications of this result--mainly for developing economies--are then...