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Intra-household efficiency: An experimental study from Ethiopia
An experimental design using treatments of a voluntary contribution mechanism is used to test household efficiency. Efficiency is decisively rejected in all treatments contrary to the assumption of most household models. Information on initial endowments of spouses improves efficiency only in some treatments suggesting that the impact of information is context dependent. Actual and expected contribution rates of spouses are systematically different; husbands' (wives') expectations of their wives' (husbands') contributions are higher (lower) than actual contributions. These errors imply that equilibrium in a game theoretic framework is unlikely. Statistical tests indicate other considerations than efficiency are likely important.
- ISBN
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978-92-9230-589-5
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: WIDER Working Paper ; No. 2013/012
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Household Production and Intrahousehold Allocation
Field Experiments
- Subject
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household efficiency
intra-household models
experimental games
Ethiopia
Privater Haushalt
Haushaltsökonomik
Produktivität
Äthiopien
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Kebede, Bereket
Tarazona, Marcela
Munro, Alistair
Verschoor, Arjan
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
- (where)
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Helsinki
- (when)
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2013
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Kebede, Bereket
- Tarazona, Marcela
- Munro, Alistair
- Verschoor, Arjan
- The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
Time of origin
- 2013
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