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Household decision making in rural china: Using experiments to estimate the influences of spouses
- Publication Year :
- 2010
- Publisher :
- Bonn: Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), 2010.
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Abstract
- Many economic decisions are made jointly within households. This raises the question about spouses? relative influence on joint decisions and the determinants of relative influence. Using a controlled experiment (on inter-temporal choice), we let each spouse first make individual decisions and then make joint decisions with the other spouse. We use a random parameter probit model to measure the relative influence of spouses on joint decisions. In general, husbands have a stronger influence than wives. However, in richer households and when the wife is older than the husband, we find a significantly stronger influence of the wife on joint decisions.
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.dedup.wf.001..40509753a13edacde0aeba0da485646e