Are Household Production Decisions Cooperative? Evidence on Pastoral Migration and Milk Sales from Northern Kenya

Market-based development efforts frequently create opportunities to generate income from goods previously produced and consumed within the household. Production within the household is often characterized by a gender and age division of labor. Market development efforts to improve well-being may lea...

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Published in:American journal of agricultural economics 2006-08, Vol.88 (3), p.525-541
Main Authors: McPeak, John G., Doss, Cheryl R.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
age
Agricultural economics
agricultural products
Agriculture
Consumption
Cooperation
D130
Decision making
Division of labor
Economic models
Economic statistics
Family
farm income
farm management
Food aid
food marketing
Gabra
Gender
gender differences
Group decision making
Herding
Herds
Household economics
household income
household production
Households
intrahousehold
Investigations
Kenya
Management decisions
Marketing
marketing channels
Men
Migration
milk prices
Milk production
noncooperative models
O150
Pastoral nomads
Pastoralism
Production management
Q120
Rain
Rice
Risk sharing
Sorghum
Studies
Wives
Women
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Summary:Market-based development efforts frequently create opportunities to generate income from goods previously produced and consumed within the household. Production within the household is often characterized by a gender and age division of labor. Market development efforts to improve well-being may lead to unanticipated outcomes if household production decisions are noncooperative. We develop and test models of household decision making to investigate intrahousehold decision making in a nomadic pastoral setting from Kenya. Our results suggest that household decisions are contested, with husbands using migration decisions to resist wives' ability to market milk.
ISSN:0002-9092
1467-8276
DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8276.2006.00877.x