title: Bargaining power within couples and use of prenatal and delivery care in Indonesia.
abstract: Indonesian women's power relative to that of their husbands is examined to determine how it affects use of prenatal and delivery care. Holding household resources constant, a woman's control over economic resources affects the couple's decision-making. Compared with a woman with no assets that she perceives as being her own, a woman with some share of household assets influences reproductive health decisions. Evidence suggests that her influence on service use also varies if a woman is better educated than her husband, comes from a background of higher social status than her husband's, or if her father is better educated than her father-in-law. Therefore, both economic and social dimensions of the distribution of power between spouses influence use of services, and conceptualizing power as multidimensional is useful for understanding couples' behavior.
authors.affiliation: RAND, 1700 Main Street, P.O. Box 2138, Santa Monica, CA 90407-2138, USA.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Beegle
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Frankenberg
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Thomas
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003657:Decision Making; D036861:Delivery, Obstetric / Q000379:methods / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D007182:Income; D007214:Indonesia; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008297:Male; D008393:Marriage / Q000523:psychology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D017008:Negotiating / Q000523:psychology*; D010067:Ownership / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011209:Power, Psychological; D011295:Prenatal Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012111:Residence Characteristics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012923:Social Class; D018454:Spouses / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014933:Women's Rights