Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/146252 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2016/61
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
We assess the effect of female bargaining power on the share of educational expenditures in the household budget in India. We augment the collective household model by endogenizing female bargaining power and use a three-stage least squares approach to simultaneously estimate female bargaining power, per capita household expenditure and budget share of education. Our key results are: (i) female bargaining power has a positive and significant effect on the household budget share of educational spending; (ii) this bargaining power is associated positively (negatively) with education spending in urban (rural) areas; (iii) female bargaining power has a uniformly positive effect on educational expenditure of girls in urban areas among all caste groups, but the observed negative association in rural areas appears to be driven by one of the lower caste groups; and (iv) a pro-male bias exists in educational spending for all age groups, with some differentiation by location and caste.
Subjects: 
collective household model
female bargaining power
gender bias
education
India
JEL: 
D13
C31
J16
I25
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-9256-104-8
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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