This study investigates on Pakistani and South African data gender issues in household behavior.A test for gender bias is proposed and applied.Education spending shows significant bias in favor of boys in Pakistan, though not in South Africa.In contrast,the calorie data shows no such bias in...

Economic analysis of household behaviour, usually, assumes that household size and composition are fixed and exogenous. This study departs from this practice by analysing resource and household compositional variables, using an interdependent framework that treats them as jointly endogenous. The...

This paper tests, using data from South Africa and Pakistan, two major implications of the unitary household model, namely, that (a) each individual pools the various components of her/his non-labour earnings, and (b) men and women pool their non-labour earnings between themselves. The study...