Is the Allocation of Resources within the Household Efficient? New Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

By Gustavo J. Bobonis. Journal of Political Economy, 2009

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Efficient Responses to Targeted Cash Transfers (2013, methodology): “Like us, Bobonis ð2009Þ implements the test developed by Bourguignon et al. ð2009Þ, using the same data we use, the evaluation data set for the PROGRESA program.”
Does female empowerment promote economic development? (2011, positive): “Similar results are reported by Bobonis (2009).”
Negotiating a Better Future: How Interpersonal Skills Facilitate Intergenerational Investment* (2018, positive): “This paper also contributes to the literature on intra-household bargaining and inefficiencies in investment within the household (Udry, 1996; Ashraf, 2009; Bobonis, 2009).”
Labor market opportunities and women's decision making power within households (2016, background): “…of non-labor income (when it is randomly distributed among households that are similar otherwise), some studies have looked at the effects of increases in women’s non-labor income on the allocation of resources within households (e.g. Lundberg et al. 1997; Attanasio and Lechene 2002; Bobonis 2009).”
The Effect of Cash, Vouchers, and Food Transfers on Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Northern Ecuador (2016, positive): “…increase the share of food in total consumption, counter to Engel’s Law, suggesting that households treat transfer income differently ( Angelucci and Attanasio 2013; Attanasio, Battistin, and Mesnard 2012; Gilligan et al. 2014; Schady and Rosero 2008; Attanasio and Lechene 2014; Bobonis 2009 .”
Limited insurance within the household: evidence from a field experiment in Kenya (2008, background): “= (5) 17 If the shocks are truly random, then the shocks should have no e¤ect on outcomes in the weeks before they are received.”
Rural Women’s Access to Financial Services: Credit, Savings, and Insurance (2014, background): “…and their families allocate more of their income to food (Doss, 2006; Thomas, 1997, and; Hoddinott and Haddad, 1995), to health (Thomas, 1997), to education (Doss, 2006; Quisumbing and Maluccio, 2000, and; Thomas, 1997) and to children’s clothing (Bobonis, 2009 and Quisumbing and Maluccio, 2000).”
Intrahousehold Bargaining and Resource Allocation in Developing Countries (2013, neutral): “Studies in some contexts support collective models that assume efficiency in allocation (e.g., Bobonis 2009, Chen 2009, Quisumbing and Maluccio 2003); other analyses would only be 6 consistent with noncooperative bargaining models (e.g., Udry 1996, McPeak and Doss 2006, Katz 1995).”
Did Trade Liberalization Help Women? the Case of Mexico in the 1990s (2010, background): “Bobonis (2009) also finds that cash transfers to the wife in the Mexican Progressa program shifted expenditures towards children’s goods.”