Property rights and intra-household bargaining

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Wang, Shing-Yi
• 署名单位: University of Pennsylvania
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0304-3878
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2013.12.003
• 发表日期: 2014
• 页码: 192-201
• 关键词: Intra-household bargaining; property rights; Housing reform

摘要

This paper examines whether an individual-level transfer of property rights increases the individual's bargaining power within the household. The question is analyzed in the context of a housing reform that occurred in China that gave existing tenants the opportunity to purchase the homes that they had been renting from their state employers. The rights to each housing unit were granted to a particular employee, so property rights were defined at the individual level rather than the household level. The results indicate that transferring ownership rights to men increased household consumption of some male-favored goods and women's time spent on chores. Transferring ownership rights to women decreased household consumption of some male-favored goods. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.