Women's Role in the Agricultural Household: Bargaining and Human Capital

T. Schultz ()

Working Papers from Yale - Economic Growth Center

Abstract: This paper reviews the methods and empirical findings from economic analyses of women's contribution to social welfare and the determinants of their human capital. To understand better women's roles in agricultural households, three themes have gained prominence in the economics literature. First is the conceptualization of the unified family as coordinator of production and consumption over the lifecycle. Second is the role of separability of production and consumption decisions in the agricultural household that depends on the equivalence of hired and of family labor and the existence of competitive factor markets. Third, is the exploration of individualistic Nash-bargaining or Pareto efficient collective coordination within the family that preserves the distinct preferences of individuals to be expressed in behavioral variation across families.

Keywords: LABOUR MARKET; HUMAN RESOURCES; WOMEN; SOCIAL WELFARE (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I30 J16 J20 J21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 94 pages
Date: 1999
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