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Pareto efficiency in intrahousehold allocations: evidence from rice farming households in India

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  • Monica Shandal
  • Sandeep Mohapatra
  • Prakashan Chellattan Veettil

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Intrahousehold models assume that plots farmed by women are as productive as plots farmed by men within the same household. Using a large plot-level dataset on rice farming households in India, we find evidence of significant Pareto inefficiency: women’s plots produce lower yields compared to their spouse’s plots, conditional on crop, plot and other attributes. The inefficiency is larger in the left tail of the rice yield distribution and primarily attributed to child-care burdens and social-norms faced by women.

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  • Monica Shandal & Sandeep Mohapatra & Prakashan Chellattan Veettil, 2022. "Pareto efficiency in intrahousehold allocations: evidence from rice farming households in India," Oxford Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 50(2), pages 158-176, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:oxdevs:v:50:y:2022:i:2:p:158-176
    DOI: 10.1080/13600818.2021.2020741
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    1. Xiangdan Piao, 2023. "Intra-Household Income Management and Couple’s Relative Sharing of Income and Environment Sustainability in Japan," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(7), pages 1-17, April.
    2. Fernando Aragon & Diego Restuccia & Juan Pablo Rud, 2022. "Assessing misallocation in agriculture: plots versus farms," Working Papers tecipa-718, University of Toronto, Department of Economics.

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