Intra-household inequality and child welfare in Argentina

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Are two parents and single parents allocating household resources to children in the same way? Which factors affect intra-household inequality? Do mothers re-distribute more income to children as they are more empowered? We focus on child welfare in the context of two parent and single parent famili...

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Autores principales: Echeverría, Lucía, Menon, Martina, Perali, Federico, Berges, Miriam
Formato: Documento de trabajo publishedVersion
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: CEDLAS 2019
Materias:
Gasto de los Hogares
Asignación de Recursos
Bienestar
Niños
Acceso en línea:http://nulan.mdp.edu.ar/3051/
http://nulan.mdp.edu.ar/3051/1/echeverria-etal-2019.pdf
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Nulan - Fac.Cs.Económicas (UNMdP) de Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata (UNMdP)
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topic Gasto de los Hogares
Asignación de Recursos
Bienestar
Niños
spellingShingle Gasto de los Hogares
Asignación de Recursos
Bienestar
Niños
Echeverría, Lucía
Menon, Martina
Perali, Federico
Berges, Miriam
Intra-household inequality and child welfare in Argentina
description Are two parents and single parents allocating household resources to children in the same way? Which factors affect intra-household inequality? Do mothers re-distribute more income to children as they are more empowered? We focus on child welfare in the context of two parent and single parent families, which is relevant for policy recommendation. We model households behavior in a collective framework, which allows us to understand the rule governing the allocation process between adults and children. Using consumption data from Argentina from three consecutive expenditures surveys (1996, 2004 and 2012) we analyze intra-household behavior over three different socio-economic contexts. We estimate a collective quadratic demand system following a structural approach to identify the fraction of total household expenditure that is devoted to children and adults, exploiting the observability of assignable goods. We provide the first evidence of intra-household inequality and individual poverty levels for Argentina. Our results indicate that family structure matters in the intra-household distribution. We find a positive gender bias in expenditure when children are females for both types of families, and we document that children fare better when mothers have a higher bargaining power in the allocation process, measured by their employment status. Further, we find several features of intra-household behavior which are persistent in time.
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author Echeverría, Lucía
Menon, Martina
Perali, Federico
Berges, Miriam
author_facet Echeverría, Lucía
Menon, Martina
Perali, Federico
Berges, Miriam
author_sort Echeverría, Lucía
title Intra-household inequality and child welfare in Argentina
title_short Intra-household inequality and child welfare in Argentina
title_full Intra-household inequality and child welfare in Argentina
title_fullStr Intra-household inequality and child welfare in Argentina
title_full_unstemmed Intra-household inequality and child welfare in Argentina
title_sort intra-household inequality and child welfare in argentina
publisher CEDLAS
publishDate 2019
url http://nulan.mdp.edu.ar/3051/
http://nulan.mdp.edu.ar/3051/1/echeverria-etal-2019.pdf
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