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.

    Subjects: DECISION making; PRODUCTION (Economic theory); MILK industry; DIVISION of labor; KENYA; Fluid Milk Manufacturing; Dairy Product (except Dried or Canned) Merchant Wholesalers; PASTORAL societies; NOMADS; COMPLEX societies; GENDER; AGE

全文链接