We test core theories of the household using variants of a public good game and experimental data from 240 couples in rural Uganda. Spouses do not maximise surplus from cooperation and realise a greater surplus when women are in charge. This violates assumptions of unitary and cooperative...

Intra-household efficiency is tested by using experimental data from variants of a public good game from 240 couples in rural Uganda. Spouses frequently do not maximise surplus from cooperation and realise a greater surplus when women are in charge of allocating the common pool. Women contribute...

We test core theories of the household using variants of a public good game and experimental data from 240 couples in rural Uganda. Spouses do not maximise surplus from cooperation and realise a greater surplus when women are in charge. This violates assumptions of unitary and cooperative...

Underinvestment in agriculture -- a major cause of rural poverty -- may be due to difficulties to detect 'contingency', defined as the influence one may exert on the distribution of returns on investment. Recently experienced contingency may create a mismatch between perceived and actual...

Experiments measuring risk and time preferences in developing countries have tended to have relatively small samples and geographically concentrated sampling. This largescale field experiment uses a Holt-Laury mechanism to elicit the preferences of 1289 randomly selected subjects from 94...