Household decisions,Gender,and development : A synthesis of recent research /

Contents
Tables
Figures
Foreword
1. What Have We Learned from Research on Intrahousehold Allocation?
Agnes R. Quisumbing
Part 1 Power and Resources within the Household
2. Power and Resources within the Household: Overview
Agnes R. Quisumbing
3. Intrahousehold Allocation and Gender Relations: New Empirical Evidence from
Four Developing Countries
Agnes R. Quisumbing and John A. Maluccio
4. Measuring Power
Elizabeth Frankenberg and Duncan Thomas
5. Divorce Laws and Women's Well-Being in Canada
John Hoddinott and Christopher Adam
6. The Importance of Women's Status for Child Nutrition in Developing Countries
Lisa C. Smith, Usha Ramakrishnan, Aida Ndiaye, Lawrence Haddad, and
Reynaldo Martorell
Part 2 Agriculture and Natural Resources
7. Agriculture and Natural Resources: Overview
Agnes R. Quisumbing
8. Gender Differentials in Farm Productivity: Implications for Household
Efficiency and Agricultural Policy
Harold Alderman, John Hoddinott, Lawrence Haddad, and Christopher Udry
9. Supply Response of West African Agricultural Households: Implications of
Intrahousehold Preference Heterogeneity
Lisa C. Smith and Jean-Paul Chavas
10. Commercial Vegetable and Polyculture Fish Production in Bangladesh: Their
Impacts on Income, Food Consumption, and Nutrition
Howarth Bouis
11. Effects of Diet in Improving Iron Status of Women: What Role for Food-Based
Interventions?
Howarth Bouis, Alok Bhargava, and Nevin Scrimshaw
12. Intrahousehold Impact of the Transfer of Modern Agricultural Technology: A
Gender Perspective
Ruchira Tabassum Naved
13. Resource Allocation and Empowerment of Women in Rural Bangladesh
Bénédicte de la Brière, Kelly Hallman, and Agnes R. Quisumbing
14. Does Cash Crop Adoption Detract from Child-Care Provision? Evidence from
Rural Nepal
Michael J. Paolisso, Kelly Hallman, Lawrence Haddad, and Shibesh Regmi
15. Changes in Intrahousehold Labor Allocation to Environmental Goods Collection:
A Case Study From Rural Nepal, 1982 and 1987
Priscilla A. Cooke
Part 3 Health and Nutrition
16. Health and Nutrition: Overview
Agnes R. Quisumbing
17. Mother-Father Resources, Marriage Payments, and Girl-Boy Health in Rural
Bangladesh
Kelly Hallman
18. Household Structure and Child Well-Being: Evidence from KwaZulu-Natal
John Maluccio, Duncan Thomas, and Lawrence Haddad
19. Adult Health in the Time of Drought
John Hoddinott and Bill Kinsey
Part 4 Social Capital, Legal Institutions, and Property Rights
20. Social Capital, Legal Institutions, and Property Rights: Overview
<br>Agnes R. Quisumbing
21. Social Capital and Gender in South Africa, 1993-98
John Maluccio, Lawrence Haddad, and Julian May
22. Gendered Participation in Water Management: Issues from Water Users'
Associations in South Asia
Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Margreet Zwarteveen
23. Control and Ownership of Assets within Rural Ethiopian Households
<br>Marcel Fafchamps and Agnes R. Quisumbing
24. Women's Land Rights in the Transition to Individualized Ownership:
Implications for the Management of Tree Resources in Western Ghana
<br>Agnes Quisumbing, Ellen Payongayong, J. B. Aidoo, and Keijiro Otsuka
Part 5 Policies and Interventions
25. Policies and Interventions: Overview
<br>Agnes R. Quisumbing
26. Public Policy to Improve Women's Status
<br>Lisa C. Smith, Usha Ramakrishnan, Aida Ndiaye, Lawrence Haddad, and
Reynaldo Martorell
27. Microfinance
<br>Manohar Sharma
28. Food for Schooling in Bangladesh
<br>Akhter U. Ahmed and Carlo Del Ninno
29. Is PROGRESA Working? Summary of the Results of an Evaluation by IFPRI
<br>Emmanuel Skoufias and Bonnie McClafferty
30. The Impact of PROGRESA on Women's Status and Intrahousehold Relations
<br>Michelle Adato, Bénédicte de la Brière, Dubravka Mindek, and Agnes R.
Quisumbing
31. Subsidized Child Care and Working Women in Urban Guatemala
<br>Marie T. Ruel, Bénédicte de la Brière, Kelly Hallman, Agnes R. Quisumbing, and
Nora Coj
32. Modeling the Effects of Trade on Women: The Case of Zambia
<br>Marzia Fontana
33. Investment in Women and Its Implications for Lifetime Incomes
<br>Agnes R. Quisumbing, Jonna P. Estudillo, and Keijiro Otsuka
References
Contributors
Index
Tables
3.1 Assets at marriage and human capital of husband and wife
3.2 Summary for all countries, expenditure share regressions
4.1 Perceptions of income sharing and income pooling
4.2 Joint tests of significance: F test statistics (p values in parentheses)
6.1 Description of data sets employed and study sample sizes
6.2 Dependent variables of the study
8.1 Ordinary least squares (OLS) estimates of the determinants of crop yield
per hectare
8.2 Determinants of intensity of inputs at the plot level (fixed-effect Tobit estimates)
8.3 Average gains from equalizing inputs per hectare within household-year-
crop groups
11.1 Regression estimates for Bangladeshi women's hemoglobin concentration
in three survey rounds
14.1 The impact of VFC participation on head male and female time, by the
number of children aged 0-4.9 years
15.1 Household collection time for environmental products, by season and year
17.1 Impact of parental asset and wedding payment shares on preschool girl and
boy illness days
18.1 Changes in child welfare outcomes, 1993-98
18.2 Difference in mean height-for-age Z-scores between children under 4
who are living with their parents and those who are not, over time
18.3 Difference in outcomes between children living with their parents and
those who are not, over time (1998 and 1993)
19.1 Determinants of log body mass index, individual-level fixed-effects estimates
19.2 Determinants of log body mass index, by relationship to household head,
individual fixed-effects regressions
21.1 Determinants of individuals' group membership, 1993 and 1998
21.2 Determinants of per capita monthly expenditure, as a function of social
and human capital
23.1 Regression analysis of disposition of assets upon divorce (currently
married households only; estimator is ordered probit)
23.2 Regression analysis of disposition of assets upon death of husband
(currently married households only; estimator is logit; coefficients are
reported as odds ratios)
24.1 Determinants of land acquisition at the household level: Tobit regression
with village fixed effects
24.2 Determinants of proportion planted to cocoa and cocoa production per
hectare at the parcel level, selected coefficients
26.1 Examples of public policy to improve women's status
28.1 Change in enrollment rate per school, by type of schools
Figures
5.1 Female suicide rates in Ontario, 1960-94
5.2 Male suicide rates in Ontario, 1960-94
6.1 Percentage of underweight, stunted, and wasted children, by region
6.2 Women's status indexes, by region
6.3 Predicted child malnutrition (underweight), by indexes of women's status
9.1 Relationship between women's time spent in male-controlled agricultural
production and income transfers from man to woman under alternative scenarios
9.2 Simulated impact of price increases on cotton production over 1981-85 under
alternative scenarios</toc)
Foreword


Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Women in development Cross-cultural studies, Households Economic aspects Cross-cultural studies, Family Economic aspects Cross-cultural studies, Cost and standard of living Cross-cultural studies, Sex role Economic aspects Cross-cultural studies, Rural families Developing countries