Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/317039 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Citation: 
[Journal:] Empirical Economics [ISSN:] 1435-8921 [Volume:] 66 [Issue:] 3 [Publisher:] Springer [Place:] Berlin, Heidelberg [Year:] 2023 [Pages:] 1055-1101
Publisher: 
Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Abstract: 
This paper studies spouses’ intrahousehold decision-making, using unique information from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions special module on Intrahousehold Sharing of Resources. We build an index to measure the bargaining power of the wife in household decision-making in European countries and analyze how that index correlates with household demographic characteristics. We find cross-country differences in the values of this index, although estimates show that, in general, older, relatively more educated and working spouses with higher wages, have more power in intrahousehold decision-making. Furthermore, country-level conditions correlate with spouses’ bargaining power in household decision-making. The paper provides a direct empirical exploration of intrahousehold decision-making in a cross-country setting.
Subjects: 
Intrahousehold decision-making
EUSILC data
Europe
JEL: 
D13
R20
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Document Type: 
Article
Document Version: 
Published Version

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