Is the Allocation of Resources within the Household Efficient? New Evidence from a Randomized Experiment.
I study whether households make Pareto-efficient intrahousehold resource allocation decisions. Combining randomized variation in women's income generated by the evaluation of the Mexican PROGRESA program with variation attributable to localized rainfall shocks as distribution factors in the collecti...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Political Economy Vol. 117; no. 3; pp. 453 - 504 |
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University of Chicago Press
June 2009
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