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Limited Insurance within the Household : Evidence from a Field Experiment in Kenya
Robinson, Jonathan - 2008
incomplete contract enforceability) in explaining intra-household risk sharing arrangements in Kenya. The experiment followed 142 …This paper presents results from a randomized field experiment to test for the importance of limited commitment (due to … experiment varied the level of intra-household correlation in the experimental payments between couples. I find that women send …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014213975
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Limited insurance within the household: Evidence from a field experiment in Kenya
Robinson, Jonathan - 2008
incomplete contract enforceability) in explaining intra-household risk sharing arrangements in Kenya. The experiment followed 142 …This paper presents results from a randomized field experiment to test for the importance of limited commitment (due to … experiment varied the level of intra-household correlation in the experimental payments between couples. I find that women send …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288145
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Rotten Spouses, Family Transfers and Public Goods
Cremer, Helmuth - 2014
We show that once interfamily exchanges are considered, Becker's rotten kids mechanism has some remarkable implications that have gone hitherto unnoticed. Specifically, we establish that Cornes and Silva's (1999) result of efficiency in the contribution game amongst siblings extends to a setting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055998
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Rotten Spouses, Family Transfers and Public Goods
Cremer, Helmuth - 2014
We show that once interfamily exchanges are considered, Becker's rotten kids mechanism has some remarkable implications that have gone hitherto unnoticed. Specifically, we establish that Cornes and Silva's (1999) result of efficiency in the contribution game amongst siblings extends to a setting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057897
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Rotten spouses, family transfers and public goods
Cremer, Helmuth; Roeder, Kerstin - 2014
We show that once interfamily exchanges are considered, Becker's rotten kids mechanism has some remarkable implications that have gone hitherto unnoticed. Specifically, we establish that Cornes and Silva's (1999) result of efficiency in the contribution game amongst siblings extends to a setting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010252137
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Rotten spouses, family transfers and public goods
Cremer, Helmuth; Roeder, Kerstin - 2014
We show that once interfamily exchanges are considered, Becker's rotten kids mechanism has some remarkable implications that have gone hitherto unnoticed. Specifically, we establish that Cornes and Silva's (1999) result of efficiency in the contribution game amongst siblings extends to a setting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010252667
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Feed the children
Cherchye, Laurens; Chiappori, Pierre-André; Rock, Bram de - 2021
Nairobi, we conduct an experiment with 424 married couples. In the experiment, the spouses (individually and jointly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012609205
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Feed the children
Cherchye, Laurens; Chiappori, Pierre-André; Rock, Bram de - 2021
Nairobi, we conduct an experiment with 424 married couples. In the experiment, the spouses (individually and jointly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012631505
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Intra-household resource allocation and familial ties
Kazianga, Harounan; Wahhaj, Zaki - 2016
In this paper, we investigate the link between intra-household resource allocation and familial ties between household members. We show that, within the same geographic, economic and social environments, households where members have "stronger" familial ties (e.g. a nuclear family household)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011439836
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Income Transfers, Welfare and Family Decisions
Andaluz, Joaquin - 2007
This paper studies the effects of different income transfers on individual welfare, in both marriage and divorce situations, and on family decisions. We assume three generations within the family. We develop a sequential game that, in a first stage, determines the optimum level of the transfer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012776754