Gender and Resource Allocation Decisions in Farm Households: Evidence from a South African Land Reform Programme

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dc.contributor.advisorKeswell, Malcolm
dc.contributor.authorFitzhenry, Nicholas
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-02T08:49:57Z
dc.date.available2020-03-02T08:49:57Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.date.updated2020-03-02T08:33:19Z
dc.description.abstractI study whether South African farm households participating in a land reform program make Pareto efficient intrahousehold consumption decisions. Using evaluation survey data of beneficiary households participating in South Africa’s Land Redistribution for Agricultural Development (LRAD) program, I estimate and test the unitary and collective models of intrahousehold resource allocation. By estimating the households’ demand function’s responses to the size of land grant transfers going to resident men and women, I find evidence rejecting the income pooling hypothesis of the unitary model. On the other hand, I cannot reject the hypothesis that resource allocation is Pareto efficient, satisfying the test of the collective model. An alternative test of the collective model using the z-conditional demand approach proposed by Bourguignon, Browning and Chiappori (2009) also favours Pareto efficiency.
dc.identifier.apacitationFitzhenry, N. (2019). <i>Gender and Resource Allocation Decisions in Farm Households: Evidence from a South African Land Reform Programme</i>. (). ,Faculty of Commerce ,School of Economics. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/31421en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationFitzhenry, Nicholas. <i>"Gender and Resource Allocation Decisions in Farm Households: Evidence from a South African Land Reform Programme."</i> ., ,Faculty of Commerce ,School of Economics, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/31421en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationFitzhenry, N. 2019. Gender and Resource Allocation Decisions in Farm Households: Evidence from a South African Land Reform Programme. . ,Faculty of Commerce ,School of Economics. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/31421en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Fitzhenry, Nicholas AB - I study whether South African farm households participating in a land reform program make Pareto efficient intrahousehold consumption decisions. Using evaluation survey data of beneficiary households participating in South Africa’s Land Redistribution for Agricultural Development (LRAD) program, I estimate and test the unitary and collective models of intrahousehold resource allocation. By estimating the households’ demand function’s responses to the size of land grant transfers going to resident men and women, I find evidence rejecting the income pooling hypothesis of the unitary model. On the other hand, I cannot reject the hypothesis that resource allocation is Pareto efficient, satisfying the test of the collective model. An alternative test of the collective model using the z-conditional demand approach proposed by Bourguignon, Browning and Chiappori (2009) also favours Pareto efficiency. DA - 2019 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town KW - Applied Economics LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PY - 2019 T1 - Gender and Resource Allocation Decisions in Farm Households: Evidence from a South African Land Reform Programme TI - Gender and Resource Allocation Decisions in Farm Households: Evidence from a South African Land Reform Programme UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/31421 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/31421
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationFitzhenry N. Gender and Resource Allocation Decisions in Farm Households: Evidence from a South African Land Reform Programme. []. ,Faculty of Commerce ,School of Economics, 2019 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/31421en_ZA
dc.language.rfc3066eng
dc.publisher.departmentSchool of Economics
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Commerce
dc.subjectApplied Economics
dc.titleGender and Resource Allocation Decisions in Farm Households: Evidence from a South African Land Reform Programme
dc.typeMaster Thesis
dc.type.qualificationlevelMasters
dc.type.qualificationnameMCom
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