Gender bias and the intrahousehold distribution of resources: Evidence from African nuclear households in South Africa

Olivier Bargain, Prudence Kwenda and Miracle Ntuli

No wp-2017-71, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: This paper applies recent developments in collective model estimation to elicit the household resource sharing rule, i.e. the amount of household resources accruing to fathers, mothers, and their children among African families in South Africa. We use the 2010/11 South African Income and Expenditure Survey as it contains exclusive goods, i.e. goods consumed by specific household members, to be used for identification. We rely on a collective model of household consumption that accounts for (potentially unequal) resource sharing and jointness in consumption (generating economies of scale).

Keywords: Collective model; Sharing rule; Economies of scale; Individual poverty; South Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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