Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/31570
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 550
Publisher: 
Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Abstract: 
Gender affects household spending in two areas that have been widely studied in the literature. One strand documents that greater female bargaining power within households results in a variety of shifts in household production and consumption. An important source of intrahousehold bargaining power is ownership of assets, especially land. Another strand examines gender bias in spending on children. This paper addresses both strands simultaneously. In it, differences in spending on education are examined empirically, at both the household and the individual level. Results are mixed, though the balance of evidence weighs toward pro-male bias in spending on education at the household level. Results also indicate that the relationship between asset ownership and female bargaining power within the household is contingent on the type of asset.
Subjects: 
Gender bias
education
assets
intrahousehold allocation
Latin America
Paraguay
JEL: 
C39
D13
J13
J16
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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