ECON 6280 Study Guide - Final Guide: Bargaining Power, Human Capital, Opportunity Cost
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According to ashraf, field and lee paper and duflo paper, family is not unitary, nor is it efficient: if families were efficient, they will maximize the size of the pie before thinking about how to share it. Missing women women who should be alive but not: this phenomenon has been exacerbated by tech, more missing women in asia than in africa. Human sex ratio ~ 1:1 male: female. Higher life expectancy of females -> sex ratio lower as age increases. Discrimination may not drive fertility/mistreatment decisions per se, but gender discrimination affects future economic outcomes for girls and women, which then conditions mortality. Logically, the phenomenon of missing women should lower the dowry or increase the bride price. Economic returns mean more bargaining power: women with higher economic returns choose more often to not get marriage/have no/less children. Different policy preferences: villages with women leaders invest more in infrastructure that is directly relevant to the needs of girls:
