Forever gender equal and child friendly? Intrahousehold allocations to health in Finland before the Nordic welfare state
| Autor: | Sakari Saaritsa |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Economic and Social History, Department of Political and Economic Studies (2010-2017) |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
History
South asia Earnings 060106 history of social sciences 05 social sciences Economics Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) Welfare state 06 humanities and the arts 5202 Economic and Social History Variation (linguistics) 0502 economics and business Development economics Economics 0601 history and archaeology Demographic economics 050207 economics |
| Zdroj: | European Review of Economic History. |
| ISSN: | 1474-0044 1361-4916 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/ereh/hew021 |
| Popis: | The literature on intrahousehold allocation in European history has typically built on bargaining models originating from Amartya Sen and the South Asian “missing girls” paradigm, testing hypotheses of male earner bias. Often, a 50/50 benchmark has been used, assuming any skew in spending meant discrimination. This study combines external measures of variation in morbidity by age, sex and season with analysis of household health expenditure in Finland in the 1920s. The results suggest that money largely followed sickness rather than gender or earnings. This supports an emerging literature challenging bargaining models and suggesting that significant historical differences may have existed between world regions. |
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