The impact of changes in common property resource management on intrahousehold allocation

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Maggs, P; Hoddinott, J
• 署名单位: CGIAR; International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2727
• DOI: 10.1016/S0047-2727(98)00096-6
• 发表日期: 1999
• 页码: 317-324
• 关键词: intrahousehold distribution; common property resources; less developed countries

摘要

In developing countries, common property resources (CPRs) can be an important source of income for certain individuals within households. This paper demonstrates that if changes in the management of CPRs impose fixed costs on them, or cause a decline in the prices of goads produced from it, the intrahousehold allocation of resources may alter in a manner detrimental to those individuals. The paper also shows that the assumption of a unitary household model causes the detrimental effects of certain CPR policy interventions to be overlooked. Although the model is narrowly conceived, the results can be generalised to examples where households have members who specialise in different economic activities outside the home. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.