Book Review of Prakash Shri and Sumitra Chowdhury, Expenditure on Education- Theory, Models and Growth, NIEPA, New Delhi, 1994, pp. x+322

This paper tests the unitary or common preference approach versus the collective models of household behaviour in India. Using the independent female unearned income as an indicator of female’s control over resources within the household in the bargaining strategy, we study the effect of...