Intra-household. resource allocation and familial ties

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Kazianga, Harounan; Wahhaj, Zaki
• 署名单位: Oklahoma State University System; Oklahoma State University - Stillwater; University of Kent
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0304-3878
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2017.03.002
• 发表日期: 2017
• 页码: 109-132
• 关键词: intra-household allocation; social norms; Extended families; altruism; Household farms; income shocks; risk-sharing; consumption smoothing

摘要

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.