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Testing the Unitary and Nash Bargaining Household Models in India

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  • T. Lakshmanasamy

    (Department of Econometrics, University of Madras, Chennai – 600 005.)

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This paper tests the unitary or common preference approach versus the collective models of household behaviour in India. Using the independent female unearned income as an indicator of female’s control over resources within the household in the bargaining strategy, we study the effect of pooled unearned income versus independent unearned income of the spouses on five household decisions, viz., male and female labour supply, household expenditures on food, education and health. The OLS estimates show that while the female independent unearned income has negligible influence, the male independent unearned income has positive and significant effects on most household decisions, indicating the weak bargaining strengths and insignificant influence of female over household resource allocation decisions.

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  • T. Lakshmanasamy, 2003. "Testing the Unitary and Nash Bargaining Household Models in India," Journal of Social and Economic Development, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore, vol. 5(2), pages 197-217, July-Dece.
    • Handle: RePEc:sch:journl:v:5:y:2003:i:2:p:197-217
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    1. Kerry MacQuarrie & Jeffrey Edmeades, 2015. "Whose Fertility Preferences Matter? Women, Husbands, In-laws, and Abortion in Madhya Pradesh, India," Population Research and Policy Review, Springer;Southern Demographic Association (SDA), vol. 34(4), pages 615-639, August.
    2. Donni, Olivier & Molina, José Alberto, 2018. "Household Collective Models: Three Decades of Theoretical Contributions and Empirical Evidence," IZA Discussion Papers 11915, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    3. José M. Casado-Díaz & Raquel Simón-Albert & Hipólito Simón, 2023. "Gender Differences in Commuting: New Evidence from Spain," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 169(3), pages 907-941, October.
    4. Pierre-André Chiappori & José Alberto Molina, 2019. "The intra-spousal balance of power within the family: cross-cultural evidence," Boston College Working Papers in Economics 983, Boston College Department of Economics.

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