Female Income and Family Welfare in India

印度女性收入和家庭福利

• 批准号: 6873242
• 负责人: Kaivan Munshi
• 金额: $ 31.18万
• 依托单位: NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-12-15 至 2007-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6873242
• 关键词: India; alcoholic beverage consumption; behavioral /social science research tag; child rearing; clinical research; decision making; domestic violence; education; employment of women; family structure /dynamics; female; gender difference; health behavior; household; human subject; income; interview; marriage /marital status; residential mobility; retirement; social class; socioeconomics

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Income-generation and empowerment programs throughout the developing world seek to directly increase female income under the assumption that women will allocate more resources to family welfare. A large literature has attempted to identify the positive effect of increasing female income and power, but with mixed results. This project seeks to improve on past studies in two ways. First, by accounting for the endogeneity of male and female incomes. Second, by accounting for the effect of the underlying social structure, measured by the household's caste, on household decision-making. In particular, a norm-based model of household decision-making is considered that explains both the variation in household resource allocation across castes as well as the marital violence that has been associated with increasing female income in many traditional economies. The investigators have collected an extensive data set from 23 tea estates owned by a single company in Kerala, South India. Climatic variation across tea estates gives rise to exogenous variation in total household income as well as female income. At the same time, incomes do not vary by caste and all estates have identical social services. This unique natural experiment will be exploited to study the effect of exogenous variation in female income on major household decisions and outcomes, separately by caste, in a controlled environment. The main outcomes of interest include child health, education, and marriage, savings and retirement decisions, and marital conflict. Qualitative methods will also be used to study in depth the process by which norms of male decision-making are challenged in this traditional society.

描述（由申请人提供）：整个发展中国家的创收和赋权计划旨在直接增加女性收入，假设妇女将为家庭福利分配更多资源。 大量文献试图确定增加女性收入和权力的积极影响，但结果好坏参半。该项目旨在从两个方面改进过去的研究。首先，考虑男性和女性收入的内生性。其次，通过考虑以家庭种姓衡量的基本社会结构对家庭决策的影响。特别是，基于规范的家庭决策模型被认为可以解释不同种姓家庭资源分配的差异以及许多传统经济中与女性收入增加相关的婚姻暴力。调查人员从印度南部喀拉拉邦一家公司拥有的 23 个茶园收集了广泛的数据。茶园之间的气候变化导致家庭总收入以及女性收入的外生变化。与此同时，收入不因种姓而异，所有阶层都提供相同的社会服务。这项独特的自然实验将用于在受控环境下研究女性收入的外生变化对主要家庭决策和结果的影响，按种姓分别进行研究。主要关注的结果包括儿童健康、教育、婚姻、储蓄和退休决定以及婚姻冲突。定性的方法也将被用来深入研究男性决策规范在这个传统社会中受到挑战的过程。