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Bargaining Power Within Couples and Use of Prenatal and Delivery Care in Indonesia
Author(s) -
Beegle Kathleen,
Frankenberg Elizabeth,
Thomas Duncan
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
studies in family planning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.529
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1728-4465
pISSN - 0039-3665
DOI - 10.1111/j.1728-4465.2001.00130.x
Subject(s) - indonesian , bargaining power , power (physics) , service (business) , control (management) , fertility , family planning , economics , population , demographic economics , psychology , business , sociology , demography , marketing , philosophy , linguistics , physics , management , quantum mechanics , research methodology , microeconomics
Indonesian women's power relative to that of their husbands is examined to determine how it affects use of prenatal and delivery care. Holding household resources constant, a woman's control over economic resources affects the couple's decisionmaking. Compared with a woman with no assets that she perceives as being her own, a woman with some share of household assets influences reproductive health decisions. Evidence suggests that her influence on service use also varies if a woman is better educated than her husband, comes from a background of higher social status than her husband's, or if her father is better educated than her father‐in‐law. Therefore, both economic and social dimensions of the distribution of power between spouses influence use of services, and conceptualizing power as multidimensional is useful for understanding couples' behavior.