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Domestic Production as a Source of Marital Power


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Working Paper

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Telalagic, Selma 

Abstract

This paper argues that wives in developing countries use domestic labour as a tool to incentivise husbands, especially when they lack power and cannot credibly threaten divorce. In Malawi, husbands often supplement farm income with wage labour. In our model, this creates moral hazard

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Intra-household allocation, domestic production, divorce, moral hazard, matriliny, Malawi

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Faculty of Economics

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