Bargaining with Grandma: The impact of the South African pension on household decision-making
Abstract I examine how an exogenous change in individual income affects decision-making in the household. Using the age discontinuity in eligibility for the South African pension, I find that eligible women are 15 percentage points more likely to be the primary decision-maker in the household than n...
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University of Wisconsin Press
2016
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| author | Ambler, Kate |
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| description | Abstract I examine how an exogenous change in individual income affects decision-making in the household. Using the age discontinuity in eligibility for the South African pension, I find that eligible women are 15 percentage points more likely to be the primary decision-maker in the household than noneligible women. This corresponds with a large increase in their share of household income. There are no parallel effects for men. Due to labor force withdrawal, male income does not increase with eligibility, suggesting that their status in the household is unchanged. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1463842025-11-12T04:46:47Z Bargaining with Grandma: The impact of the South African pension on household decision-making Ambler, Kate income gender households pensions resource allocation decision making poverty women Abstract I examine how an exogenous change in individual income affects decision-making in the household. Using the age discontinuity in eligibility for the South African pension, I find that eligible women are 15 percentage points more likely to be the primary decision-maker in the household than noneligible women. This corresponds with a large increase in their share of household income. There are no parallel effects for men. Due to labor force withdrawal, male income does not increase with eligibility, suggesting that their status in the household is unchanged. 2016-12-20 2024-06-21T09:06:53Z 2024-06-21T09:06:53Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146384 en http://uwpress.wisc.edu/journals/journals/jhr-supplementary.html Open Access application/pdf University of Wisconsin Press Ambler, Kate. 2016. Bargaining with Grandma: The impact of the South African pension on household decision-making. Journal of Human Resources 51(4): 900 - 932. https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.51.4.0314-6265R1 |
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| title | Bargaining with Grandma: The impact of the South African pension on household decision-making |
| title_full | Bargaining with Grandma: The impact of the South African pension on household decision-making |
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| title_short | Bargaining with Grandma: The impact of the South African pension on household decision-making |
| title_sort | bargaining with grandma the impact of the south african pension on household decision making |
| topic | income gender households pensions resource allocation decision making poverty women |
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