Intra-household Resource Allocation and Familial Ties

Kazianga, Harounan and Wahhaj, Zaki (2017) Intra-household Resource Allocation and Familial Ties. Journal of Development Economics, 127 . pp. 109-132. ISSN 0304-3878. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2017.03.002) (Full text available)

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the link between intra-household resource allocation and familial ties between household members. We show that, within the same geographic, economic and social environments, households where members have `stronger' familial ties (nuclear family households) achieve near Pareto efficient allocation of productive resources and Pareto efficient allocation of consumption while households with `weaker' familial ties (extended family households) do not. We propose a theoretical model of the household based on the idea that altruism between household members vary with familial ties which generates predictions consistent with the observed empirical patterns.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled keywords:	Intra-household Allocation, Social Norms, Extended Families, Altruism, Household Farms, Income Shocks, Risk-sharing, Consumption Smoothing
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
Divisions:	Faculties > Social Sciences > School of Economics
Depositing User:	Zaki Wahhaj
Date Deposited:	05 Mar 2017 00:10 UTC
Last Modified:	06 Mar 2019 00:00 UTC
Resource URI:	https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/60717 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)
Kazianga, Harounan:	https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6780-9945
Wahhaj, Zaki:	https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8285-7670