Inefficient Collective Households: Cooperation and Consumption

Lewbel, Arthur; Pendakur, Krishna

doi:10.1093/ej/ueab099

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“…Following Lewbel and Pendakur ( 2022 ), we indicate intrahousehold cooperation using the father's share of time spent on childcare (hereafter ‘men's care share’). Sharing the responsibilities of childcare constitutes a key way in which parents cooperate since it requires a large time and financial investment, and children usually constitute an important part of family life (Gobbi, 2018 ).…”

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Intrahousehold power inequalities and cooperation: Unpacking household responses to nutrition‐sensitive agriculture interventions in rural India

Harris‐Fry

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Beaumont

et al. 2023

Maternal & Child Nutrition

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Nutrition-sensitive agriculture (NSA) interventions offer a means to improve the dietary quality of rural, undernourished populations. Their effectiveness could be further increased by understanding how household dynamics enable or inhibit the uptake of NSA behaviours. We used a convergent parallel mixed-methods design to describe the links between household dynamics-specifically intrahousehold power inequalities and intrahousehold cooperation-and dietary quality and to explore whether household dynamics mediated or modified the effects of NSA interventions tested in a cluster-randomized trial, Upscaling Participatory Action and Videos for Agriculture and Nutrition (UPAVAN). We use quantitative data from cross-sectional surveys in 148 village clusters at UPAVAN's baseline and 32 months afterwards (endline), and qualitative data from family case studies and focus group discussions with intervention participants and facilitators. We found that households cooperated to grow and buy nutritious foods, and gendered power inequalities were associated with women's dietary quality, but cooperation and women's use of power was inhibited by several interlinked factors. UPAVAN interventions were more successful in more supportive, cooperative households, and in some cases, the interventions increased women's decision-making power. However, women's decisions to enter into negotiations with family members depended on whether women deemed the practices promoted by UPAVAN interventions to be feasible, as well as women's confidence and previous cultivation success. We conclude that interventions may be more effective if they can elicit cooperation from the whole household. This will require a move towards more family-centric intervention models

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Intrahousehold power inequalities and cooperation: Unpacking household responses to nutrition‐sensitive agriculture interventions in rural India

Harris‐Fry

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Beaumont

et al. 2023

Maternal & Child Nutrition

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“…extended households, which include near relatives, such as grandparents, aunts, or uncles, in addition to a nuclear household) [1]. Fourth, future work should focus on improving researchers' understanding of why existing identification approaches may fail (as in [11]), and relaxing some of the modeling assumptions (as discussed in [12]). Fifth, the empirical implementation of the collective household model typically requires the estimation of highly nonlinear models, which has proven to be computationally difficult.…”

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Measuring poverty within the household

Brown¹,

Calvi²,

Penglase³

et al. 2022

izawol

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Poverty is an individual-level concept but typically measured using household-level data. Standard household per capita consumption measures do not account for inequality within the household or economies of scale in consumption, which may be important. Collecting individual-level consumption data on a large scale is challenging and costly. The collective household model provides a promising framework to measure poverty at the individual level that only requires data on one private assignable good. Results suggest that standard poverty measures may dramatically understate the poverty status of certain individuals (e.g. women and children), and that many poor individuals reside in non-poor households. ELEVATOR PITCHA key element of anti-poverty policy is the accurate identification of poor individuals. However, measuring poverty at the individual level is difficult since consumption data are typically collected at the household level. Per capita measures based on household-level data ignore both inequality within the household and economies of scale in consumption. The collective household model offers an alternative and promising framework to estimate poverty at the individual level while accounting for both inequality within the household and economies of scale in consumption.

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“…We supplement our new empirical results with a novel theoretical model of abusive relationships. There are a number of models of domestic violence, which can be roughly characterized according to whether violence is modeled as: (i) arising from bargaining between an abuser with a preference for violence and a victim (Aizer, 2010;Lewbel and Pendakur, 2019) (ii) a signal of dissatisfaction of some aspect of the relationship that cannot be perfectly communicated (Bloch and Rao, 2002;Calvi and Keskar, 2021); (iii) driven by emotional cues that behavioral agents cannot perfectly suppress (Card and Dahl, 2011). The majority of this literature focuses on physical violence only, is static, and does not explicitly consider the relationship dissolution margin.…”

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The Dynamics of Abusive Relationships

Adams‐Prassl¹,

Huttunen²,

Nix³

et al. 2023

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Domestic abuse encompasses a range of damaging behaviours beyond physical violence, including economic and emotional abuse. This paper provides the first evidence on the impact of cohabiting with an abusive partner on victim's economic outcomes. In so doing, we highlight the systematic role played by economic suppression and coercive control in such relationships. Using administrative data and a matched control event study design, along with a within-individual comparison of outcomes across relationships, we document three new facts. First, women who begin relationships with (eventually) physically abusive men suffer large and significant earnings and employment falls immediately upon cohabiting with the abusive partner, which translates into a total household income loss. Second, this decline in economic outcomes is non-monotonic in women's pre-cohabitation outside options. Third, abusive men impose economic costs on all their female partners, even those who do not report physical violence. To rationalize these findings, we develop a new dynamic model of abusive relationships where women do not perfectly observe their partner's type, and abusive men have an incentive to use coercive control to sabotage women's outside options and their ability to later exit the relationship. We show that this model is consistent with all three empirical facts. We harness the model's predictions to revisit some classic results on domestic violence and show that the relationship between domestic violence and women's outside options is crucially linked to breakup dynamics.

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Inefficient Collective Households: Cooperation and Consumption

Cited by 12 publications

References 53 publications

Intrahousehold power inequalities and cooperation: Unpacking household responses to nutrition‐sensitive agriculture interventions in rural India

Intrahousehold power inequalities and cooperation: Unpacking household responses to nutrition‐sensitive agriculture interventions in rural India

Measuring poverty within the household

The Dynamics of Abusive Relationships

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