Unitary or Noncooperative Intrahousehold Model? Evidence from Couples in Uganda: Table 1.

Fiala, Nathan; He, Xi

doi:10.1093/wber/lhw011

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“…The third type of explanation is asymmetric information. A growing literature (see for example Ashraf 2009;Castilla and Walker 2013;Ashraf, Field, and Lee 2014;Aker et al 2016;Fiala and He 2017) documents that individuals may hide resources and actions from other household members. 4 In the present context, information asymmetries could result in differing responses to survey questions if, for example, a woman indicates she is involved in decision making but her husband is not, because she makes some decisions without her husband's knowledge.…”

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He Says, She Says: Spousal Disagreement in Survey Measures of Bargaining Power

Ambler¹,

Doss

Kieran

et al. 2021

Economic Development and Cultural Change

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Measures of control over assets and participation in household decisions are often used as indicators of bargaining power. Yet, spouses do not necessarily provide the same responses to questions about these topics. Using household survey data from Bangladesh, we examine differences in spouses' answers to questions regarding women's involvement as asset owners and decision makers and develop a model to understand what these differences tell us about household behavior. Disagreement is substantial and systematic; women are more likely than men to say that women own assets and are involved in decision making. These patterns suggest the presence of asymmetric information in the household, in the form of hidden assets or decisions. Finally, correlational analysis shows that when women claim their involvement but men do not include them, it is positively associated with good outcomes for women, but to a lesser extent than when husbands agree that their wives are involved.

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He Says, She Says: Spousal Disagreement in Survey Measures of Bargaining Power

Ambler¹,

Doss

Kieran

et al. 2021

Economic Development and Cultural Change

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“…Scholars spanning the social science disciplines have recognized the complex and gendered nature of resource management within households (Guyer, 1988;Kabeer 1994;Quisumbing, 2003;Kevane 2012;Johnson 2017). The unitary model of the household, which assumes that all household members are striving to maximize one budget to achieve the same goals, has proven inadequate to describe predominant household resource management practices worldwide (Doss, 1996;Quisumbing and Maluccio, 2003;Fiala and He, 2016). Studies have shown that who controls the resources within a household influences how those resources are spent (Thomas, 1990;Lundberg et al, 1997;Duflo, 2003;Duflo and Udry, 2004;Doss, 2013).…”

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Competing priorities: Women’s microenterprises and household relationships

Friedson-Ridenour

Pierotti

2019

World Development

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The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry the names of the authors and should be cited accordingly. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors. They do not necessarily represent the views of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/World Bank and its affiliated organizations, or those of the Executive Directors of the World Bank or the governments they represent.

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“…Studying the role of networks, a number of articles-on the effects of cash transfers, or on the lives of entrepreneurs in developing countries-document the existence of social redistributive pressures and (forced) risk-sharing arrangements, with cash being transferred from those that have additional resources to other close peers (Angelucci and De Giorgi 2009;Grimm et al 2016). For example, Angelucci and De Giorgi (2009) indicate that after two years from the start of Progresa, ineligible households in treatment villages increased their likelihood of receiving monetary 2 For a recent review of the literature on intrahousehold models, see e.g., Fiala and He (2016). 3 For example, the review of the project listed the following among the key lessons:…”

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Are there different spillover effects from cash transfers to men and women? Impacts on investments in education in post-war Uganda

Calderone¹

2017

WIDER Working Paper

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This paper looks at the spillover effects of grants under the Youth Opportunities Programme (YOP) on human capital investments in conflict-affected Northern Uganda. The YOP grant was primarily aimed at providing start-up money to groups of underemployed young people, and in practice worked similarly to an unconditional cash transfer. It kept a gender balance by mandating that groups should be at least one third female. Overall, the intervention had a significant impact on education-related expenditures, increasing them by 11-15 per cent (US$17-23) in the shorter and longer term (i.e. after two and four years). However, the educational expenditures of women did not increase. Female recipients seem not to have spent more on education, at least in part because of redistributive pressures such as probable financial requests from other members of their YOP group. These findings are relevant for future designs of group eligibility rules and for targeting of cash transfers.

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Unitary or Noncooperative Intrahousehold Model? Evidence from Couples in Uganda: Table 1.

Cited by 18 publications

References 33 publications

He Says, She Says: Spousal Disagreement in Survey Measures of Bargaining Power

He Says, She Says: Spousal Disagreement in Survey Measures of Bargaining Power

Competing priorities: Women’s microenterprises and household relationships

Are there different spillover effects from cash transfers to men and women? Impacts on investments in education in post-war Uganda

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