Household Bargaining and Spending on Children
Experimental Evidence from Tanzania
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9728333 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Charlotte Ringdal (FAIR, Norwegian School of Economics and CREED, University of Amsterdam), Ingrid Hoem Sjursen (FAIR and Norwegian Center for Taxation (NoCeT), Norwegian School of Economics, Center for Applied Research at NHH (SNF), and Department of Economics and Misum, Stockholm School of Economics) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 88 |
| Issue | 350 |
| Pages | 430-455 |
| Publication date | 2021-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Economica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0427 • E-ISSN: 1468-0335 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/ecca.12353 |
| OpenAlex | W2624487420 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 49 |
This paper studies whether an increase in women's intrahousehold bargaining power causes couples to allocate more resources to their child's education, and, if so, what the underlying mechanisms for this might be. We conduct a between‐subject lab experiment with couples and vary the relative bargaining power between spouses. The paper provides two main insights. First, increasing the wife's bargaining power improves gender equality in allocation to children's education. However, it does not increase the amount invested in the child's education. Second, we show that the difference in time preferences between spouses matters for how much the household invests in the child's education. It benefits the child that the most patient spouse has more relative bargaining power. This implies that increasing the wife's bargaining power may reduce the allocation to the child's education if she is the less patient spouse. The results provide new insights into the current debate on female empowerment, and highlight the importance of incorporating a broader set of preferences in the analysis of intrahousehold decision‐making
Bargaining power · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Empowerment · Labour economics · Microeconomics · Political science · Power (physics) · Set (abstract data type) · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Spouse · Tanzania · Time allocation · Wife · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
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| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |