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...
Saul S. Morris, Marie T. Ruel, Roberta J. Cohen, Kathryn G Dewey et al.
Background Previous research has suggested that there may be significant within-subject variability, both site-to-site and over time, in hemoglobin concentrations in capillary blood. Objective This study examined the reliability of the portable hemoglobinometer (PHM) system with use of capillary blo...
Bénédicte de la Brière, Kelly Hallman, Agnes Quisumbing
The bargaining power of men and women crucially shapes the resource allocation decisions households make (Quisumbing and de la Brière 2000). Husbands and wives often use their bargaining power to express different priorities about how resources should be allocated. Understanding these differences an...
Agnes Quisumbing, Bénédicte de la Brière
This paper examines how differences in the bargaining power of husband and wife affect the distribution of consumption expenditures in rural Bangladeshi households. Two alternative measures of assets are used: current assets and the value of assets brought to marriage. Results show that both assets ...
Rebecca J. Stoltzfus, Jyatsnamoy Chakraborty, Amy L. Rice, Bénédicte de la Brière et al.
Since 1978 iron and folic acid pills have been distributed, along with other family-planning and health services, to women in Matlab subdistrict, Bangladesh, through fortnightly visits of community health workers. In 1986 the iron dose was set at three pills daily (198 mg of iron) during pregnancy a...