Doctoral Dissertation: An Evolutionary Approach to Determining Women's Bargaining Power and its Effect on Child Health.

这项研究将调查妇女的讨价还价能力(家庭内部权力动态)在塑造坦桑尼亚获得资源和儿童健康方面的作用。这位研究人员将检验两个关于影响农村地区女性婚姻议价能力的因素的相互竞争的假说。这项研究是基于之前的研究，该研究认为，当女性拥有更大的讨价还价能力(从而获得资源)时，儿童健康就会得到改善。运用行为生态学理论，这项研究将考察女性的讨价还价能力如何影响母亲的工作努力、父亲对家庭的贡献，以及最终的儿童健康。方法包括村庄调查、人口分析、时间分配研究和对人口样本的结构化访谈。这项研究有助于经济学和人类学中关于家庭中的个人，特别是妇女和儿童等权力较小的成员如何实现和利用议价能力以获得资源(从而获得健康)的辩论。

Abstract 0001901This study will investigate the role of women's bargaining power (intra-household power dynamics) in shaping access to resources and children's health in Tanzania. The researcher will test two competing hypotheses concerning the factors that influence women's marital bargaining power in a rural community. The study is based on previous research that argues that where women have greater bargaining power (and thus access to resources), child health improves. Using behavioral ecology theory, the research will examine how women's bargaining power shapes maternal work efforts, paternal contributions to the household, and ultimately child health. Methods include a village survey, demographic analysis, time allocation studies, and structured interviews with samples of the population. This study contributes to debates in economics and anthropology concerning how individuals in households, particularly less powerful members such as women and children, achieve and utilize bargaining power to access resources (and thus health).