Towards an extended resource theory of marital power: parental education and household decision-making in rural China

• Main Authors: CHENG Cheng, XIE, Yu
• 格式: text
• 語言: English
• 出版: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2023
• 主題: resource theory; marital power; extended families; extended resource theory; natal families; comparative resources; couple; relative education; decision-making power; household financial decisions; extended family context; social origins; intergenerational exchanges; Family, Life Course, and Society; Rural Sociology
• 在線閱讀: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3766; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/5024/viewcontent/Cheng_Xie_2024_ESR.pdf
• 機構: Singapore Management University

Existing literature on the resource theory of marital power has focused on the relative resources of spouses and overlooked the resource contributions of spouses’ extended families. We propose an extended resource theory that considers how the comparative resources of a couple’s natal families are d...