Intra-household bargaining
Intra-household bargaining refers to negotiations that occur between members of a household in order to arrive at decisions regarding the household unit, like whether to spend or save, whether to study or work.
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Family economics
Family economics applies economic concepts such as production, division of labor, distribution, and decision making to the family.
Sexual division of labor, intra-household bargaining, and the household production function.
Housewife hidden savings
Type of savings traditionally kept in the home by housewives in non-egalitarian marriages who are unbanked.
It can be seen as a form of resistance to patriarchy, as well as a hedge against a husband's profligacy or as a contingency fund, or as security in case of divorce.
Martin Browning
Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford, Oxford, England, a Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, a Fellow of the Econometric Society, and an emeritus Fellow of the European Economic Association.
He has worked in the areas of intrahousehold decision making; demand analysis; consumption and saving, and its interaction with labor supply.
Female foeticide in India
Abortion of a female foetus outside of legal methods.
This is based on the unitary model of the household where the household is seen as a single decision making entity under the same budget constraint.
Trevon Logan
American economist.
His research mainly focuses on economic history, including studies of African American migration, economic analysis of illegal markets, the economics of marriage transfers, and measures of historical living standards, with an emphasis on racial disparities in the United States.
Shelly Lundberg
Economist and currently holds the positions of Leonard Broom Professor of Demography at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she serves as Associate Director of the Broom Center for Demography.
A second area of Shelly Lundberg's research addresses bargaining within married couples.
Literacy
Literacy in its broadest sense describes "particular ways of thinking about and doing reading and writing" with the purpose of understanding or expressing thoughts or ideas in written form in some specific context of use.
Martha Nussbaum suggests illiterate women are more vulnerable to becoming trapped in an abusive marriage, given that illiteracy limits their employment opportunities and worsens their intra-household bargaining position.
Carmen Diana Deere
American feminist economist who is an expert on land policy and agrarian reform, rural social movements, and gender in Latin American development.
From 2013 to 2015, funded by UN Women, Deere conducted international research, the "Gender Asset Gap Project," focused on improving statistics on gender and assets as well as analysis of women's intra-household bargaining power.
Feminist economics
Critical study of economics and economies, with a focus on gender-aware and inclusive economic inquiry and policy analysis.
Amartya Sen shows how social norms that devalue women's unpaid work in the household often disadvantage women in intra-household bargaining.