Intra-household Resource Allocation: Issues and Methods for Development Policy and Planning (UNU, 1990, 204 pages)

Foreword

Acknowledgements

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The internal dynamics of households: A critical factor in development policy

Incorporating household dynamics into the planning process

Methodological issues in the study of intra-household dynamics

I. Conceptual frameworks

1. Conceptual frameworks

2. Programme interventions, intra-household allocation, and the welfare of individuals: economic models of the household

Person-specific prices and goods-specific prices

Heterogeneity and household behaviour: discerning the consequences of intra-household resource allocations

3. Peeking into the black box of economic models of the household

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A theoretical peek into the black box of economic household models

4. Intra-household allocation of resources: perspectives from anthropology

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Social distribution of rights and responsibilities

5. Intra-household allocation of resources: perspectives from psychology

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Distribution Rules : Rules of Social Exchange

II. Methodological approaches to measurement

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6. Combining quantitative and qualitative methods in the study of intra-household resource allocation

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The meaning of cultural things

7. An approach to the study of women's productive roles as a determinant of intra-household allocation patterns

8. Household organization and expenditure in a time perspective: social processes of change

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Micro-social research on household organization and expenditures in Buenos Aires, Argentina

III. Measurement of key variables

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9. Multiple group membership and intra-household resource allocation

10. Time-allocation research: the costs and benefits of alternative methods

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Discussion

11. Use of emic units for time-use recall

12. Data on food consumption by high-risk family members: its utility for identifying target households for food and nutrition programmes

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Weight- and height-for-age as proxies for calorie adequacy among high-risk pre-schoolers

Correlation between calorie adequacy of high-risk individuals and selected indicators

13. Determinants the ability of household members to adapt to social and economic changes

Conclusions

Appendix

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