Eat, drink, man, woman: gender, income share and household expenditure in South Africa

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dc.contributor.authorGummerson, Elizabeth
dc.contributor.authorSchneider, Daniel
dc.date.accessioned2016-05-11T13:57:50Z
dc.date.available2016-05-11T13:57:50Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.date.updated2016-05-11T13:56:00Z
dc.description.abstractThis 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.en_ZA
dc.identifierhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/sf/sos173
dc.identifier.apacitationGummerson, E., & Schneider, D. (2013). Eat, drink, man, woman: gender, income share and household expenditure in South Africa. <i>Social Forces</i>, http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19608en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationGummerson, Elizabeth, and Daniel Schneider "Eat, drink, man, woman: gender, income share and household expenditure in South Africa." <i>Social Forces</i> (2013) http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19608en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationGummerson, E., & Schneider, D. (2013). Eat, drink, man, woman: gender, income share and household expenditure in South Africa. Social forces, 91(3), 813-836.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn0037-7732en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Journal Article AU - Gummerson, Elizabeth AU - Schneider, Daniel AB - 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. DA - 2013 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town J1 - Social Forces LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2013 SM - 0037-7732 T1 - Eat, drink, man, woman: gender, income share and household expenditure in South Africa TI - Eat, drink, man, woman: gender, income share and household expenditure in South Africa UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19608 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/19608
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationGummerson E, Schneider D. Eat, drink, man, woman: gender, income share and household expenditure in South Africa. Social Forces. 2013; http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19608.en_ZA
dc.languageengen_ZA
dc.publisherOxford University Press (OUP)en_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentCentre for Social Science Research(CSSR)en_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.sourceSocial Forcesen_ZA
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dc.titleEat, drink, man, woman: gender, income share and household expenditure in South Africaen_ZA
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