Why Are Older Women Missing in India? The Age Profile of Bargaining Power and Poverty
Why Are Older Women Missing in India? The Age Profile of Bargaining Power and Poverty
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DOI：
10.1086/706983
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发表时间：
2020-07-01
影响因子：
8.2
通讯作者：
Calvi, Rossella
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作者：
Calvi, Rossella
在印度，几乎一半的失踪妇女都处于生育后年龄。家庭内部的性别不平等和贫困的不对称是否可以解释这些失踪妇女的一部分？使用一个自然的实验，我链接到妇女的家庭内部的议价能力，他们的死亡风险。使用结构性家庭模型，我估计的年龄分布的妇女的议价能力和建设妇女的相对贫困率。我发现，女性的议价能力随着年龄的增长而下降，老年女性的贫困率与其年龄死亡率密切相关。这表明，许多失踪的妇女可能是通过在个人而不是家庭一级衡量贫困来解释的。
Almost half of missing women in India are of postreproductive ages. Can intrahousehold gender inequality and asymmetry in poverty explain a portion of these missing women? Using a natural experiment, I link women's intrahousehold bargaining power to their mortality risk. Using a structural household model, I estimate the age profile of women's bargaining power and construct women's relative poverty rates. I find that women's bargaining power declines with age, with older women's poverty rates closely matching their mortality rates by age. This suggests that many missing women might be accounted for by measuring poverty at the individual rather than the household level.