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...

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Published in:	Journal of Political Economy Vol. 117; no. 3; pp. 453 - 504
Main Author:	Bobonis, Gustavo J.
Format:	Article
Published:	University of Chicago Press June 2009
Subjects:	Programa de Educación, Salud y Alimentación (Mexico City, Mexico) Resource allocation > Mathematical models Households & economics
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost