@article{Ghosh:127292,
      recid = {127292},
      author = {Ghosh, Suman and Kanbur, Ravi},
      title = {Male Wages and Female Welfare: Private Markets, Public  Goods, and Intrahousehold Inequality},
      address = {2002-06},
      number = {642-2016-44098},
      pages = {17},
      year = {2002},
      abstract = {Can an increase in male wages make the woman in the  family, or even the whole family, worse off? On the face of  it, this seems paradoxical, since the overall resources of  the household are improved by the wage increase. This paper  shows that the chain reactions set in motion by such a wage  increase in labor markets can end up by making not only the  woman but the whole family worse off because of the  interactions between intrahousehold public goods,  extrahousehold public goods, and the outcomes in  conventional labor markets. The key is specialization of  males and females in different activities, the public goods  characteristics of some of these activities, and the  effects of the outside options defined by these activities  on intrahousehold bargaining.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/127292},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.127292},
}