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Intrahousehold resource allocation in developing countries : models, methods, and policy
- Title
- Intrahousehold resource allocation in developing countries : models, methods, and policy / edited by Lawrence Haddad, John Hoddinott, and Harold Alderman.
- Publication
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1997], ©1997.
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- Description
- xii, 341 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- In this new volume from the International Food Policy Research Institute, economists, demographers, sociologists, and anthropologists collaborate in the study of how resources are allocated within households in developing countries and why it matters from a policy perspective.
- Surveying a broad body of theory and evidence, the contributors examine the many social and cultural factors that influence decisions at the family and household level about the allocation of time, income, assets, and other resources.
- Shedding new light on a process that is often hidden from view and difficult to measure, they show that a more complete understanding of intrahousehold behavior can increase the likelihood that policies will reach the people they are intended to affect - leading to better policies in areas such as food production and consumption, nutrition, natural resource management, and fertility.
- Subject
- Note
- "Published for the International Food Policy Research Institute.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-323) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Introduction: The Scope of Intrahousehold Resource Allocation Issues / Lawrence Haddad, John Hoddinott and Harold Alderman -- 2. Specification and Estimation of the Demand for Goods within the Household / Mark M. Pitt -- 3. "Collective" Models of Household Behavior: The Sharing Rule Approach / Pierre-Andre Chiappori -- 4. The Policy Implications of Family Bargaining and Marriage Markets / Marjorie B. McElroy -- 5. Separate-Spheres Bargaining and the Marriage Market / Shelly Lundberg and Robert A. Pollak -- 6. Separate Spheres and the Conjugal Contract: Understanding the Impact of Gender-Biased Development / Michael R. Carter and Elizabeth G. Katz -- 7. Endowments and Assets: The Anthropology of Wealth and the Economics of Intrahousehold Allocation / Jane I. Guyer -- 8. Testing Competing Models on Intrahousehold Allocation / John Hoddinott, Harold Alderman and Lawrence Haddad --
- 9. Incomes, Expenditures, and Health Outcomes: Evidence on Intrahousehold Resource Allocation / Duncan Thomas -- 10. The Application of Anthropological Methods to the Study of Intrahousehold Resource Allocation / Joel Gittelsohn and Sangeeta Mookherji -- 11. Inequality in the Intrafamily Distribution of Food: The Dilemma of Defining an Individual's "Fair Share" / Howarth E. Bouis and Christine L. Pena -- 12. Gender Bias in Intrahousehold Nutrition in South India: Unpacking Households and the Policy Process / Barbara Harris-White -- 13. Finding the Ties That Bind: Beyond Headship and Household / Judith Bruce and Cynthia B. Lloyd -- 14. Family Resources and Gender Differences in Human Capital Investments: The Demand for Children's Medical Care in Pakistan / Harold Alderman and Paul Gertler -- 15. Gender Asymmetries in Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Some Policy Implications for Land and Labor Productivity / Jennie Dey Abbas --
- 16. Gender Coalitions: Extrafamily Influences on Intrafamily Inequality / Nancy Folbre -- 17. Policy Issues and Intrahousehold Resource Allocation: Conclusions / Harold Alderman, Lawrence Haddad and John Hoddinott.
- ISBN
- 0801855721 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 96006720
- OCLC
- ocm36011518
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries