TY - JOUR PY - 2006// TI - Gender and Say: a Model of Household Behaviour with Endogenously Determined Balance of Power JO - Economic journal A1 - Basu, Kaushik SP - 558 EP - 580 VL - 116 IS - 511 N2 - The evidence that the same income can lead to different household decisions, depending on who the earner is, has led to an effort to replace the standard household model with the ‘collective model’, which recognises that a household's decisions depend on the power balance between the husband and the wife. This article recognises that the power balance can, in turn, depend on the decisions made. A new ‘household equilibrium’ and its dynamics are described and it is shown that there can be multiple equilibria in female labour-supply, and that child labour can decline and rise as the wife's power increases. This has strong implications for spouse abuse prevalence and modeling.

LA - SN - 0013-0133 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0297.2006.01092.x ID - ref1 ER -