Tests of Income Pooling in Household Decisions

Orazio Attanasio and Valérie Lechene ()

Review of Economic Dynamics, 2002, vol. 5, issue 4, 720-748

Abstract: Using the Progresa data from Mexico, we investigate intrahousehold decision making using a variety of outcomes. We exploit both the experimental nature and the (short) panel dimension of the data to measure the impact of exogenous changes in the intrahousehold distribution of resources on household decisions. We test for global pooling of resources within households, which would correspond to the unitary model of household decision making. We also exploit a set of questions about power and the decision making process in the household to investigate aspects of strategic interactions between household members. Our findings confirm previous rejections of income pooling. We also cannot reject that the wife's relative income share is a significant determinant of the wife's decision making power in the household, with a higher share of income associated with more decision making power. (Copyright: Elsevier)

JEL-codes: D13 H31 J12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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