Preference Heterogeneity, Power, and Intrahousehold Decision-Making in Rural Malaysia

Intrahousehold Bargaining and Resource Allocation in Developing Countries

“…In one of the few studies that asks directly about preferences, Kusago and Barham (2001) separately ask each member of a couple in Malaysia how they would spend an additional $40 across thirteen expenditure categories. These are then used to calculate a measure of preference heterogeneity within the household, which, when included provides better estimations of expenditure decisions.…”

Land, farming, livelihoods, and poverty: Rethinking the links in the Rural South

“…In the east coast state of Kelantan the great bulk of the population are Malay and the primary economic activity is still small holder agriculture. Yet the "fabric of rural life in Kelantan has been transformed over the past two decades by the outmigration of young Kelantanese women to factory jobs in Penang" (Kusago & Barham, 2001: 1239. The association of Malay identity with farming continues, even while Malays themselves are migrating in ever-growing numbers out of farming and away from the kampong.…”

Los sesgos de género en las encuestas oficiales sobre economía doméstica

“…This approach has opened new research lines that are not limited to the understanding of gender relations, but that also examine how said relationships interact with age, ethnicity, social class, sexuality, etc., giving rise to studies that look at generational differences, aiming to understand the economic behavior of the elderly (Price, 2011), as well as economic practices in non-Western contexts, looking at ethnic and/or racial differences (Fleming, 1997;Eroglu, 2009;Kusago and Barham, 2001). …”