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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
arts and humanities
Eat, drink, man, woman: Gender, income share and household expenditure in South Africa
Social Forces, Volume 91, No. 3, Article sos173, Year 2013
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Description
This study examines how gendered household bargaining occurs in non-nuclear family households. We employ two South African data sets and use linear regression and household fixed effects to investigate the relationship between women's income shares and household expenditures. In married couple households, when women garner larger shares of income, spending on food is higher and spending on alcohol is lower. However, the relationship between women's income shares and expenditures attenuates with additional adults in the household. We find that in households with multiple adults, men and women bargain in gender groups to realize gendered preferences for expenditures. Future work should consider household members outside of the married dyad when modeling bargaining processes. © The Author 2012. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. All rights reserved.
Authors & Co-Authors
Gummerson, Elizabeth
South Africa, Cape Town
University of Cape Town
Schneider, Daniel
United States, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
Statistics
Citations: 44
Authors: 2
Affiliations: 2
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1093/sf/sos173
ISSN:
00377732
e-ISSN:
15347605
Research Areas
Cancer
Food Security
Substance Abuse
Study Locations
South Africa
Participants Gender
Male
Female