Abstract
Market-based development efforts frequently create opportunities to generate income from goods previously produced and consumed within the household. Production within the household is often characterized by a gender and age division of labor. Market development efforts to improve well-being may lead to unanticipated outcomes if household production decisions are noncooperative. We develop and test models of household decision making to investigate intrahousehold decision making in a nomadic pastoral setting from Kenya. Our results suggest that household decisions are contested, with husbands using migration decisions to resist wives' ability to market milk.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 525-541 |
Number of pages | 17 |
Journal | American Journal of Agricultural Economics |
Volume | 88 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Aug 2006 |
Keywords
- Household production
- Intrahousehold
- Noncooperative models
- Pastoralism
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous)
- Economics and Econometrics