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An Experimental Investigation of Intra-Household Resource Allocation in Rural India

Kulkarni, Savita - 2018

This study aims to investigate intra-household bargaining outcomes elicited in an artefactual field experiment design where participants completed a purchase task of real commodities. Married couples separately expressed their initial preferences over commodities. The bargaining process in the...

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Deciding to Divorce : Separation Initiation and Experience

Brüning, Max - 2021

At the heart of economic and sociological thinking on divorce lies the idea that a couple divorces if at least one spouse expects to improve their life in doing so. De facto, divorces are predominantly initiated by one spouse alone. This might suggest that one spouse typically benefits from...

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Spousal trust alignment and intra-household cooperation

Sternberg, Henrike; Steinert, Janina; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2024 - This version: September 2024

We implement a binary trust game between 211 married couples from lowincome households in urban India. In a separate experiment, these spouses randomly received either only a joint savings device (control) or, additionally, a device for individual usage (treatment). Combining data from both...

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What if women earned more than their spouse? : an experimental investigation of work division in couples

Cochard, François; Couprie, Hélène; Hopfensitz, Astrid - 2015

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What if women earned more than their spouses? : an experimental investigation of work-division in couples

Cochard, François; Couprie, Hélène; Hopfensitz, Astrid - In: Experimental economics : a journal of the Economic … 21 (2018) 1, pp. 50-71

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Smokers' preference for divorce and extramarital sex

Yamamura, Eiji - 2016

' behavior in the marriage market has not as yet been well investigated. In this paper, individual-level data, which consist of … literature. The findings suggest that whether one is a smoker presents important information in the marriage market, where …

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Perceived abilities and gender stereotypes within the household : experimental evidence from Bangladesh

Nani, Carlotta - 2024

Is it possible to improve women's agency by providing information about their abilities? Using a lab experiment in the field, I study how perceived abilities and gender stereotypes shape intra-household dynamics. I use an incentivized decision-making game with 525 married couples from 42 rural...

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Spousal control and intra-household decision making: an experimental study in the Philippines

Ashraf, Nava - In: The American economic review 99 (2009) 4, pp. 1245-1277

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Can child marriage law change attitudes and behaviour? : experimental evidence from an information intervention in Bangladesh

Amirapu, Amrit; Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Wahhaj, Zaki - 2020

The practice of child marriage is ubiquitous in developing countries, where one in three girls is married before the … age of 18. Although most developing countries have a legal minimum age of marriage, in practice marriage age is determined … and marriage behaviour in a setting with weak law enforcement. We do this by administering a randomised video …

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Can child marriage law affect attitudes and behaviour in the absence of strict enforcement? : experimental evidence from Bangladesh

Amirapu, Amrit; Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Wahhaj, Zaki - 2022

marriage - in a context in which the laws are not strictly enforced. We do so using a randomised video-based information … intervention that aimed to accelerate knowledge transmission about a new child marriage law in Bangladesh that introduced harsher … punishments for facilitating early marriage. Follow-up surveys documented an increase in early marriage among treated households …

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