Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://repository.iimb.ac.in/handle/2074/14298
Title: Intra-household gender inequality and economic development: Evidence from Data, 1973
Authors: Swaminathan, Hema 
Malghan, Deepak 
Keywords: Labour force participation;Gender inequality;Intra-household;Inequality decomposition;Household welfare;Micro-Kuznets hypothesis
Issue Date: 2017
Conference: Development in the Face of Global Inequalities, Barcelona, Spain, Co-organized by the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI), the World Society Foundation (WSF), and the Sociology of Development Section of the American Society, 11-13 May, 2017 
Abstract: Intra-household inequality continues to remain a neglected concept despite renewed focus on income and wealth inequality. Using a global micro dataset (the LIS micro data), we present evidence that this neglect is equivalent to ignoring up to a third of total inequality. For a wide range of countries and over four decades, we show that at least 30 per cent of total earnings inequality is attributable to gender inequality in earnings within the household. Using a simple normative measure of inequality, we comment on the welfare implications of these trends. Drawing on data from over three million households from around the world, we present preliminary empirical evidence supporting a non-monotonic relationship between intra-household gender inequality and household economic status. We discuss the historical political economy of this evidence supporting what we term the micro-Kuznets hypothesis.
URI: https://repository.iimb.ac.in/handle/2074/14298
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