We test core theories of the household using variants of a public good game and experimental data from 240 couples in rural Uganda. Spouses do not maximise surplus from cooperation and realise a greater surplus when women are in charge. This violates assumptions of unitary and cooperative models. When women control the common account, they receive less than when men control it; this contradicts...

This paper provides insights into the determinants of marriage bargaining by analyzing withincouple negotiation for the share of family resources allocated to each of the spouse’s old-age parents. The focal question is the extent to which spousal labor market participation affects her bargaining power. The study is based on a unique Chinese household level survey data. To account for the potent...

We employ a quasi-experimental design, propensity score matching and interviews to study the effect of smallholder milk market participation on women`s relative intra-household bargaining position in rural Ethiopia. Findings indicate that in market participating households milk income is two times higher and its control shifted from women to men. Men tend to return this income in part to their ...

We exploit time use data from Denmark and the United States to examine the impact institutions and social norms have on individuals‟ bargaining power within a household, hypothesizing that the more generous social welfare system and more egalitarian social norms in Denmark will mitigate the impact standard economic power measures have upon couples‟ time use. Further we posit that leisure time w...

Intra-Household Allocation of Resources: Inferences from Non-Resident Fathers’ Child Support Payments A large proportion of divorced and separated fathers form new partnerships. The new partner’s preferences are not likely to put much weight on expenditures on the man’s children from his previous union. Thus, his own and his partner’s income would have different impacts on his child support pay...

— Land rights equity is seen as an important tool for increasing empowerment and economic welfare for women in developing countries. Accordingly, the objective of this paper is to empirically examine the role of women’s land ownership, either alone or jointly, as a means of improving their intra-household bargaining power in the areas of own healthcare, major household purchases, and visiting f...

Culture and Household Decision Making: Balance of Power and Labor Supply Choices of US-born and Foreign-born Couples This study investigates how spouses’ cultural backgrounds mediate the role of intrahousehold bargaining in the labor supply decisions of foreign-born and US-born couples, in a collective-household framework. Using data from the 2000 US Census, I show that the hours worked by US-b...