The Impact of Household Structure on Female Autonomy in Developing Countries
研究印度联合家庭与核心家庭结构对女性自主权和劳动参与的影响，发现核心家庭中女性决策权更大，且效果因收入、种姓和地区而异。
Joint household structures in which several generations co-reside in a single house are common across developing countries. Such households may confer benefits on all the family members through household public goods with the patriarch exercising greater control over resources. Therefore, the household structure may affect the bargaining power of its members. This paper estimates the effect of joint versus nuclear household structure in India on the autonomy of women and their labour force participation and the heterogeneity in the effects by income, caste, and region. I use an instrumental variable approach and find that women living in nuclear households have greater decision-making power.