Household Decision Making in Rural China: Using Experiments to Estimate the Influences of Spouses

dc.contributor.author	Carlsson, Fredrik
dc.contributor.author	He, Haoran
dc.contributor.author	Martinsson, Peter
dc.contributor.author	Qin, Ping
dc.contributor.author	Sutter, Matthias
dc.date.accessioned	2010-08-17T12:29:12Z
dc.date.available	2010-08-17T12:29:12Z
dc.date.issued	2010-08
dc.identifier.issn	1403-2465
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2077/23159
dc.description.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.	sv
dc.language.iso	eng	sv
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Working Papers in Economics	sv
dc.relation.ispartofseries	465	sv
dc.title	Household Decision Making in Rural China: Using Experiments to Estimate the Influences of Spouses	sv
dc.type	Text	sv
dc.type.svep	report	sv