Joint household decision-making may be prevented by the incentives of individuals to withhold information or avoid … bargaining. We study whether these barriers to joint decision-making keep female labor force participation low in India. In … partnership with one of India’s largest carpet producers, we offered a weaving job to 495 married women. We randomized whether job …

India. 360 married couples were randomly assigned to either a control group, receiving a shared saving device (a lockbox …This paper examines the role of spousal trust in intra-household decision making through its potential of inciting the … supplementary receipt of the private device significantly increased the wife's savings in couples with a low level of spousal trust …

couples from two villages in the Tamil Nadu state of India participated in the experiment. It was observed that information …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 …