Dilafruz Kuchkorova
Part-time PhD student (2022-2025)
Part-time PhD student (2022-2025)
Academic biography
- 2009-2014 Management Development Institute of Singapore in Tashkent , bachelor degree of “Entrepreneurship and Management”
- 2019-2021 Westminster International University in Tashkent, master degree of “Applied economics ”
Employment
- 2018-2025 Westminster International University in Tashkent, Department Administrator
- 2025-present PhD student of Westminster International University in Tashkent
Expertise
- Small business management, Foundations of Economics, Microeconomics
Doctoral project
The title of the dissertation is “Do Husbands and Wives pool their resources? Evidence from Uzbekistan”. This study determines who decides the household expenditure in a family, namely only by men or by females as well. The aim is to test Becker’s the unitary household hypothesis model, which analyses whether family members pool their money in order to maximize a common utility function. However, this hypothesis has been rejected for empirical research in favor of more complex intra-household bargaining models. Theoretical and empirical strategy comes from Butikofer et al. (2009). The preliminary results of the Dissertation include findings for Uzbekistan, which based on Listening to the Citizens of Uzbekistan, World Bank data in 2018.The income pooling hypothesis has been rejected in Uzbekistan. Namely, if the wife’s income contribution of family total expenditure budget changes by some amount, the utility of households in Uzbekistan also increases. Hence, the household behavior depends on individual income not total household income in Uzbekistan.
Publications
- Kuchkorova D (2024) «Do Husbands and Wives pool their resources? Evidence from Uzbekistan» “Институт прогнозирования и макроэкономических исследований Институт макроэкономических и региональных исследований.Экономика: анализы и прогнозы №3(27)” журнал. ISSN 2181-0567
Conference participations, scientific talks
