Gender in the Rural Agricultural Sector of Transitional Economies

ISBN-13: 9783639068443 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 52 str.

Jalal Akbar Mumtaz

Opis

Recent economic literature has linked female headshipof households with poverty. Female-Headed Households(FHH) have increasingly drawn the attention ofscholars and policymakers, in part because of theunprecedented increase of this type of household, inpart because of the state of poverty associated withthem. Recent empirical literature has been examiningthe nature of intra-household resource allocation,and how labor is distributed accordingly acrossdifferent types of households (single / two headed,male / female headed, etc.).This book expands on the above theory intransitional economies, for which Vietnam has beenchosen as the optimum candidate. The studydifferentiates the effects of the theory on communetype villages in the north with that of the moredeveloped, capitalistic ones in the south of Vietnam.This book also integrates two pieces of literature toexamine intra-household bargaining and femaleheadship, which help examine the marginal effect ofmale and female labor from the perspective of asingle FHH vs. the marginal effect of male and femalelabor in a two-person/parent male-headed household.

O autorze

Jalal Akbar Mumtaz was born in 1982 in Lahore, Pakistan. He
graduated from Reed College in Portland, Oregon, with a B.A. in
Economics in 2004.