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| Title: | | Household decision making and the influence of spouses' income, education, and communist party membership: a field experiment in rural China  |
| Authors: | | Carlsson, Fredrik Martinsson, Peter Qin, Ping Sutter, Matthias |
| Issue Date: | | 2009 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA discussion papers 4139 |
| Abstract: | | We study household decision making in a high-stakes experiment with a random sample of households in rural China. Spouses have to choose between risky lotteries, first separately and then jointly. We find that spouses' individual risk preferences are more similar the richer the household and the higher the wife's relative income contribution. A couple's joint decision is typically determined by the husband, but women who contribute relatively more to the household income, women in high-income households, women with more education than their husbands, and women with communist party membership have a stronger influence on the joint decision. |
| Subjects: | | Household decision making risk field experiment China |
| JEL: | | C91 C92 C93 D10 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-20090513377 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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