Agnes Quisumbing, John A. Maluccio
Abstract We test the unitary versus collective model of the household using specially designed data from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Indonesia, and South Africa. Human capital and individual assets at the time of marriage are used as proxy measures for bargaining power. In all four countries, we reject th...
Esha Sraboni, Hazel Malapit, Agnes Quisumbing, Akhter Ahmed
Using nationally representative survey data from Bangladesh, we examine the relationship between women’s empowerment in agriculture and two measures of household food security: per adult equivalent calorie availability and dietary diversity. We use the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index to ass...
Agnes Quisumbing, John A. Maluccio, Quisumbing, Agnes R., Maluccio, John A.
The paper reviews recent theory and empirical evidence testing unitary versus collective models of the household. In contrast to the unitary model, the collective model posits that individuals within households have different preferences and do not pool their income. Moreover, the collective model p...
Emmanuel Skoufias, Agnes Quisumbing
Agnes Quisumbing, Bénédicte de la Brière, Quisumbing, Agnes R., De La Briere, Benedicte
This paper examines how differences in the bargaining power of husband and wife affect the distribution of expenditures in rural Bangladeshi households.It contributes to the literature testing various household models by using measures of bargaining power that have been informed by ethnographic evid...
Agnes Quisumbing, Kelly Hallman
Marriage is an event of great social and economic significance in most societies. Despite the centrality of marriage in an individual’s life history, the literature on marriage patterns pays little attention to men. This paper examines trends in schooling, age, and assets at marriage for both men an...
Caitlin Kieran, Kathryn Sproule, Cheryl R. Doss, Agnes Quisumbing et al.
Abstract A broad consensus has emerged among both policymakers and researchers that strengthening women's property rights is crucial for reducing poverty and achieving equitable growth. Despite the important role of land in rural livelihoods and as a form of wealth in many Asian countries, surprisin...
Agnes Quisumbing, Lawrence James Haddad, Christine Lao Peña, Quisumbing, Agnes R. et al.
This paper presents new evidence on the association between gender and poverty based on an empirical analysis of 11 data sets from 10 developing countries. The paper computes income- and expenditure-based poverty measures and investigates their sensitivity to the use of per capita and per adult equi...
Esha Sraboni, Agnes Quisumbing
Using nationally-representative survey data from rural Bangladesh, we examine the relationship between women's empowerment in agriculture and indicators of individual dietary quality. Our findings suggest that women's empowerment is associated with better dietary quality of individuals within the ho...
Agnes Quisumbing
The paper reviews recent theory and empirical evidence testing unitary versus collective models of the household. In contrast to the unitary model the collective model posits that individuals within households have different preferences and do not pool their income. Moreover the collective model pre...
Neha Kumar, Agnes Quisumbing
This paper assesses long-term impacts of early adoption of vegetable and polyculture fish production technologies on household and individual well-being in Bangladesh. In 1996-1997 and 2006-2007, a panel of households were surveyed in three sites where non-governmental organisations and extension pr...
Agnes Quisumbing, Neha Kumar, Julia Behrman
Abstract Using panel data, this article tests whether shocks affect men's and women's assets differently in Bangladesh and Uganda. Across countries, covariate and idiosyncratic shocks have different effects on men's, women's and jointly owned assets. Jointly held land and assets were better insured ...
Shalini Roy, Jinnat Ara, Narayan Das, Agnes Quisumbing
Many development interventions target transfers to women. However, little evidence directly explores the “flypaper effects” of whether women retain control over these transfers once within the household and how reallocation of the transfers affects women's empowerment. We study these dynamics in the...
Agnes Quisumbing, Jessica Heckert, Simone Faas, Gayathri Ramani et al.
Women play important roles at different nodes of both agricultural and off-farm value chains, but in many countries their contributions are either underestimated or limited by prevailing societal norms or gender-specific barriers. We use primary data collected in Asia (Bangladesh, Philippines) and A...
Priya Bhagowalia, Purnima Menon, Agnes Quisumbing, V. Soundararajan
We use data from the 2007 Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey to examine the relationship between women’s status and nutrition in Bangladesh using indicators of empowerment such as mobility, decisionmaking power, and attitudes toward verbal and physical abuse. We also examine the role of variab...