scholarly journals How Does Childbirth Alter Intrahousehold Resource Allocation?: Evidence from Japan

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomoki Fujii ◽  
Ryuichiro Ishikawa
Keyword(s):  
Resource Allocation ◽  
Intrahousehold Resource Allocation

Marriage, Bargaining, and Intrahousehold Resource Allocation: Excess Female Mortality among Adults during Early German Development, 1740–1860

1998 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 432-467 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephan Klasen
Keyword(s):  
Resource Allocation ◽  
Gender Bias ◽  
Agricultural Change ◽  
Female Mortality ◽  
German Development ◽  
Household Resources ◽  
Intrahousehold Resource Allocation ◽  
Specific Mortality ◽  
Considerable Excess ◽  
Bargaining Approach

This article investigates sex-specific mortality rates in eighteenth- and nineteenthcentury rural Germany to determine whether there was any gender bias in the allocation of household resources. Family reconstitution data from 60 villages provide evidence of considerable excess female mortality among married adults. The empirical findings are consistent with a bargaining approach to understanding intrahousehold resource allocation and suggest that women's survival disadvantage is related to their positions in the remarriage market, the perceived value of their work, as well as differences in altruism. Agricultural change appears to be one factor responsible for the emergence of this disadvantage.

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