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Determinants of Intra‐Household Gender Bias: Evidence from Timor‐Leste
Author(s) -
Dawsey Amanda,
Bookwalter Jeffrey
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of international development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.533
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1099-1328
pISSN - 0954-1748
DOI - 10.1002/jid.3228
Subject(s) - bargaining power , economics , timor leste , resource allocation , affect (linguistics) , time allocation , demographic economics , population , household income , power (physics) , gender bias , labour economics , development economics , microeconomics , geography , psychology , demography , sociology , social psychology , physics , management , communication , archaeology , quantum mechanics , market economy
Household bargaining models indicate that girls' access to resources does not depend solely on household income, but also on a number of factors that affect women's bargaining power. Data describing the allocation of resources within households is rare, prompting the development of inferential methods. Using a methodology that only requires household‐level expenditure data, we analyze intra‐household resource allocation in Timor‐Leste. While the results do not support the hypothesis that allocation is biassed towards boys in the full population we find, in subpopulations where women are likely to have less bargaining power, substantial anti‐girl bias. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.