Ties that bind: The kin system as a mechanism of income-hiding between spouses in rural Ghana

I present a model of intra-household allocation to show that when income is not perfectly observed by both spouses, hiding of income can occur even when revelation increases bargaining power. I draw data from Ghana and exploit the variation in the degree

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Year of publication:	2013
Authors:	Castilla, Carolina
Institutions:	World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU/WIDER), United Nations University
Subject:	incomplete information \| income-hiding \| non-cooperative family bargaining

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Series:	Working Paper Series.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	Number UNU-WIDER Research Paper WP2013/007 3 pages long
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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