A Research Agenda for Financial Resources within the Household

Edited by Fran Bennett, Associate Fellow, Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford, UK, Silvia Avram, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex, UK and Siobhan Austen, Professor Emerita of Economics, Curtin University, Australia

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