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| Title: | | Household decision making in rural china: Using experiments to estimate the influences of spouses  |
| Authors: | | Carlsson, Fredrik He, Haoran Martinsson, Peter Qin, Ping Sutter, Matthias |
| Issue Date: | | 2010 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Discussion paper series // Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 5127 |
| 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. |
| Subjects: | | household decision making spouses relative influence random parameter model field experiment time preferences |
| JEL: | | C91 C92 C93 D10 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-201010132822 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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