Intrahousehold Welfare in Rural Ethiopia*
研究埃塞俄比亚农村家庭中议价能力与家庭内部福利的关系，发现配偶相对营养与认知能力、独立收入及离婚时资产分配相关，女性赋权有利于儿童营养和教育，但议价变量与福利关联较弱，可能因贫困家庭消费分歧空间小。
Abstract We examine the relationship between bargaining power and intrahousehold welfare in rural Ethiopia. The relative nutrition of spouses is associated with differences in cognitive ability, independent income and asset devolution upon divorce. Female empowerment benefits child nutrition and education. Spouses’ health, leisure and consumption of assignable goods show no association with differences in bargaining power. The relative nutrition and health of spouses varies across villages, but not in ways predicted by anthropological accounts of female empowerment. Bargaining variables may be weakly associated with intrahousehold welfare because surveyed households are poor and have little room for disagreement over consumption.