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<p>With expenditure behaviour having important development consequences, existing literature tends to examine the impact of sources of income, particularly that of remittances, on household budgetary allocation. Given the patriarchal and conservative socio-economic structure of a developing country like Bangladesh, intra-household bargaining patterns reflected primarily through the sex of the household head can also have crucial implications for spending patterns of households. Based on the latest nationally representative household survey of Bangladesh, this paper attempted to examine the roles of such dual factors, e.g. receipt of remittances and sex of the head, on households’ spending on key categories of commodities. Our fractional generalized linear model (GLM) analyses based on the adjusted Working-Leser model reveal such dual factors having important implications towards spending on human capital development. The importance of household members’ migration status along with the sex of the head on households’ spending pattern has also been reflected in Blinder–Oaxaca decomposition results, where the part not explained by the endowments of households is primarily responsible for such differences. Separate fractional GLM models reveal that it is only when the migrant is the son or daughter of the household head, they can have a significant impact on certain budgetary categories, e.g. food and education. But our results, as a whole, might be indicative of a low level of control over household resources by the migrant member(s).</p>

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Analysing the role of migration and sex of members on household expenditure pattern: evidences from Bangladesh

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    2025年7月15日

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  • Sayema Haque Bidisha,
  • Tanveer Mahmood,
  • Md. Biplob Hossain

摘要

With expenditure behaviour having important development consequences, existing literature tends to examine the impact of sources of income, particularly that of remittances, on household budgetary allocation. Given the patriarchal and conservative socio-economic structure of a developing country like Bangladesh, intra-household bargaining patterns reflected primarily through the sex of the household head can also have crucial implications for spending patterns of households. Based on the latest nationally representative household survey of Bangladesh, this paper attempted to examine the roles of such dual factors, e.g. receipt of remittances and sex of the head, on households’ spending on key categories of commodities. Our fractional generalized linear model (GLM) analyses based on the adjusted Working-Leser model reveal such dual factors having important implications towards spending on human capital development. The importance of household members’ migration status along with the sex of the head on households’ spending pattern has also been reflected in Blinder–Oaxaca decomposition results, where the part not explained by the endowments of households is primarily responsible for such differences. Separate fractional GLM models reveal that it is only when the migrant is the son or daughter of the household head, they can have a significant impact on certain budgetary categories, e.g. food and education. But our results, as a whole, might be indicative of a low level of control over household resources by the migrant member(s).