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A Research Agenda for Financial Resources within the Household
This cross-disciplinary Research Agenda offers an in-depth exploration into financial resources within households, focussing specifically on how they are managed, how they are distributed and with what results. Bringing together an array of leading experts from the Global South and North, this Research Agenda examines the challenges facing researchers in this area, investigates developments in the field and analyses how research interacts with current public policy.
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Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.
This cross-disciplinary Research Agenda offers an in-depth exploration into financial resources within households, focussing specifically on how they are managed, how they are distributed and with what results.
Bringing together an array of leading experts from the Global South and North, this Research Agenda examines the challenges facing researchers in this area, investigates developments in the field and analyses how research interacts with current public policy. This book shines a crucial light on multiple underexplored topics including economic abuse, financial resources within multigenerational households, ageing and cognitive decline, and the role of children in relation to resources within households. Offering key recommendations for future policy and research, A Research Agenda for Financial Resources within the Household makes an invaluable contribution to this highly topical area.
This book will be a vital read for students, early career researchers and established academics interested in economics, sociology and social policy, amongst other disciplines. It will also prove highly beneficial for professionals working in NGOs, third sector organisations and think tanks who focus on the issues surrounding intra-household resources.
This cross-disciplinary Research Agenda offers an in-depth exploration into financial resources within households, focussing specifically on how they are managed, how they are distributed and with what results.
Bringing together an array of leading experts from the Global South and North, this Research Agenda examines the challenges facing researchers in this area, investigates developments in the field and analyses how research interacts with current public policy. This book shines a crucial light on multiple underexplored topics including economic abuse, financial resources within multigenerational households, ageing and cognitive decline, and the role of children in relation to resources within households. Offering key recommendations for future policy and research, A Research Agenda for Financial Resources within the Household makes an invaluable contribution to this highly topical area.
This book will be a vital read for students, early career researchers and established academics interested in economics, sociology and social policy, amongst other disciplines. It will also prove highly beneficial for professionals working in NGOs, third sector organisations and think tanks who focus on the issues surrounding intra-household resources.
Critical Acclaim
‘The book is well referenced and written for academics and policymakers but is also suitable for graduate classes where a wider point of view leads to discussion of complexities from a global perspective. As the title suggests, this book looks toward the future; what research needs to be done? Qualitative and quantitative research are covered.’
– Elizabeth B. Goldsmith, Family & Consumer Sciences Research Journal
‘This edited collection provides an invaluable guide for researchers at all career stages, and a wider audience, to key issues relating to the intra-household use, management and distribution of resources. Chapters cover methodological challenges, latest research and policy implications in the Global South and North, written by leading authors.’
– Karen Rowlingson, University of York, UK
‘This exciting new book brings together insights on household financial resources by bridging disciplinary, methodological, and geographical boundaries. Chapters use both qualitative and quantitative approaches and include analyses of both the Global South and the Global North. They challenge us to think differently about finances across a wide range of types of households.’
– Cheryl Doss, Tufts University, US
‘This book is a long overdue and important contribution to the literature on the intra-household allocation of resources. The chapters in the book provide a thorough and well-written introduction to the topic for students who are new to it. However, it will also be important reading for those researchers familiar with the topic.
Scholars interested in the intra-household allocation of resources will recognise many of the themes and questions that are addressed in the chapters of this comprehensive book. Familiar and well-researched questions are addressed from new theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches. The chapters in the book take up, in fresh and innovative ways, familiar questions such as assumptions about the sharing of resources that underlie beliefs about sharing in households and families, the connection to policy, issues of power and the (sometimes) conflicting priorities between individual and family interests and well-being.
But the book does not stop there. It also expands the scope of research on intra-household resource allocation by including under-researched geographical areas and new topics that mirror the times we live in. For instance, it looks more closely at financial allocation and practices in the global south and in elderly couples, the role of children in resource allocation, complex migrant households and economic abuse in couples.
I highly recommend this book to all those interested in opening up the lid of the “black box” of household and family finances and taking a peek inside.’
– Charlott Nyman, Umeå University, Sweden
‘How resources are distributed within households is notoriously difficult to analyse. The 15 chapters of this book offer a remarkable review of the conceptual and methodological challenges faced and the advances in research on intra-household management and allocation of resources, the importance of the issues raised and their implications for the assessment of individual economic well-being, autonomy and living conditions, and for public policies. This is essential reading.’
– Sophie Ponthieux, formerly Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), France
– Elizabeth B. Goldsmith, Family & Consumer Sciences Research Journal
‘This edited collection provides an invaluable guide for researchers at all career stages, and a wider audience, to key issues relating to the intra-household use, management and distribution of resources. Chapters cover methodological challenges, latest research and policy implications in the Global South and North, written by leading authors.’
– Karen Rowlingson, University of York, UK
‘This exciting new book brings together insights on household financial resources by bridging disciplinary, methodological, and geographical boundaries. Chapters use both qualitative and quantitative approaches and include analyses of both the Global South and the Global North. They challenge us to think differently about finances across a wide range of types of households.’
– Cheryl Doss, Tufts University, US
‘This book is a long overdue and important contribution to the literature on the intra-household allocation of resources. The chapters in the book provide a thorough and well-written introduction to the topic for students who are new to it. However, it will also be important reading for those researchers familiar with the topic.
Scholars interested in the intra-household allocation of resources will recognise many of the themes and questions that are addressed in the chapters of this comprehensive book. Familiar and well-researched questions are addressed from new theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches. The chapters in the book take up, in fresh and innovative ways, familiar questions such as assumptions about the sharing of resources that underlie beliefs about sharing in households and families, the connection to policy, issues of power and the (sometimes) conflicting priorities between individual and family interests and well-being.
But the book does not stop there. It also expands the scope of research on intra-household resource allocation by including under-researched geographical areas and new topics that mirror the times we live in. For instance, it looks more closely at financial allocation and practices in the global south and in elderly couples, the role of children in resource allocation, complex migrant households and economic abuse in couples.
I highly recommend this book to all those interested in opening up the lid of the “black box” of household and family finances and taking a peek inside.’
– Charlott Nyman, Umeå University, Sweden
‘How resources are distributed within households is notoriously difficult to analyse. The 15 chapters of this book offer a remarkable review of the conceptual and methodological challenges faced and the advances in research on intra-household management and allocation of resources, the importance of the issues raised and their implications for the assessment of individual economic well-being, autonomy and living conditions, and for public policies. This is essential reading.’
– Sophie Ponthieux, formerly Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), France
Contributors
Contributors include: Siobhan Austen, Silvia Avram, Fran Bennett, Tania Burchardt, Sara Cantillon, Monica Costa, Rita Griffiths, Anne-Catherine Guio, Susan Himmelweit, Thandie Hlabana, Marilyn Howard, Eleni Karagiannaki, Gill Main, Satomi Maruyama, Elena Moore, Abena D. Oduro, Jan Pahl, Daria Popova, Debora Price, Rhonda Sharp, Nicola Sharp-Jeffs, Supriya Singh, Kate Summers, Hema Swaminathan, Frances Woolley, David Young
Contents
Contents:
Foreword xv
Jan Pahl
Acknowledgements xix
Introduction to A Research Agenda for Financial
Resources within the Household 1
Fran Bennett, Silvia Avram and Siobhan Austen
PART I CONCEPTS, TOOLS, MEASURES AND CHALLENGES
1 How much, and why? A critical introduction
to the theory and quantitative analysis of
intra-household resource distribution 17
Frances Woolley
2 Resources, roles and relationships: What
qualitative research can reveal about resources
within the household 33
Fran Bennett
3 Barriers to opening the ‘black box’ of
intra-household sharing of resources 49
Satomi Maruyama
4 Data about money within the household:
Exploring the challenges and gaps 63
Sara Cantillon and Anne-Catherine Guio
5 Peering into the black box: Using microsimulation
methods to evaluate the gendered impact of taxes
and transfers 79
Silvia Avram and Daria Popova
PART II RECENT RESEARCH INTO RESOURCES
WITHIN THE HOUSEHOLD: NEW DIRECTIONS TAKEN
6 Many mouths under one roof: Multigenerational
families in Europe sharing resources within households 97
Tania Burchardt and Eleni Karagiannaki
7 Individualising wealth and asset measures in the
Global South: Challenges and new directions for
research 113
Abena D. Oduro and Hema Swaminathan
8 Control ‘of’ resources or control ‘over’
individuals? Exploring the management and
distribution of resources within the household and
economic abuse 129
Marilyn Howard and Nicola Sharp-Jeffs
9 Intra-household resources in complex migrant
households 145
Supriya Singh
10 Who counts in intra-household sharing? Children
as active agents in the household economy 161
Gill Main
PART III THE INTER-RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN
RESOURCES WITHIN THE HOUSEHOLD AND POLICY
11 Understanding the role of social grants as
resources in multi-generational households:
Examples from South Africa and Lesotho 179
Elena Moore and Thandie Hlabana
12 Ageing populations, financial capability and
household financial decision-making in the
context of neoliberal social policy systems 193
Debora Price
13 Negotiating assets in a financialised retirement
income system: Evidence from older mixed-sex
couple households in Australia 209
Siobhan Austen, Susan Himmelweit, Rhonda
Sharp and Monica Costa
14 The gendered effects of joint assessment for
couples claiming means-tested benefits 225
Rita Griffiths
15 Temporality and the meaning of social security
money within households 241
Kate Summers and David Young
Index 255
Foreword xv
Jan Pahl
Acknowledgements xix
Introduction to A Research Agenda for Financial
Resources within the Household 1
Fran Bennett, Silvia Avram and Siobhan Austen
PART I CONCEPTS, TOOLS, MEASURES AND CHALLENGES
1 How much, and why? A critical introduction
to the theory and quantitative analysis of
intra-household resource distribution 17
Frances Woolley
2 Resources, roles and relationships: What
qualitative research can reveal about resources
within the household 33
Fran Bennett
3 Barriers to opening the ‘black box’ of
intra-household sharing of resources 49
Satomi Maruyama
4 Data about money within the household:
Exploring the challenges and gaps 63
Sara Cantillon and Anne-Catherine Guio
5 Peering into the black box: Using microsimulation
methods to evaluate the gendered impact of taxes
and transfers 79
Silvia Avram and Daria Popova
PART II RECENT RESEARCH INTO RESOURCES
WITHIN THE HOUSEHOLD: NEW DIRECTIONS TAKEN
6 Many mouths under one roof: Multigenerational
families in Europe sharing resources within households 97
Tania Burchardt and Eleni Karagiannaki
7 Individualising wealth and asset measures in the
Global South: Challenges and new directions for
research 113
Abena D. Oduro and Hema Swaminathan
8 Control ‘of’ resources or control ‘over’
individuals? Exploring the management and
distribution of resources within the household and
economic abuse 129
Marilyn Howard and Nicola Sharp-Jeffs
9 Intra-household resources in complex migrant
households 145
Supriya Singh
10 Who counts in intra-household sharing? Children
as active agents in the household economy 161
Gill Main
PART III THE INTER-RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN
RESOURCES WITHIN THE HOUSEHOLD AND POLICY
11 Understanding the role of social grants as
resources in multi-generational households:
Examples from South Africa and Lesotho 179
Elena Moore and Thandie Hlabana
12 Ageing populations, financial capability and
household financial decision-making in the
context of neoliberal social policy systems 193
Debora Price
13 Negotiating assets in a financialised retirement
income system: Evidence from older mixed-sex
couple households in Australia 209
Siobhan Austen, Susan Himmelweit, Rhonda
Sharp and Monica Costa
14 The gendered effects of joint assessment for
couples claiming means-tested benefits 225
Rita Griffiths
15 Temporality and the meaning of social security
money within households 241
Kate Summers and David Young
Index 255
