Arbeitspapier
Household decision making and the influence of spouses? income, education, and communist party membership: A field experiment in rural China
We study household decision making in a high-stakes experiment with a random sample of households in rural China. Spouses have to choose between risky lotteries, first separately and then jointly. We find that spouses' individual risk preferences are more similar the richer the household and the higher the wife's relative income contribution. A couple's joint decision is typically determined by the husband, but women who contribute relatively more to the household income, women in high-income households, women with more education than their husbands, and women with communist party membership have a stronger influence on the joint decision.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Working Papers in Economics and Statistics ; No. 2009-09
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Individual
Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Group Behavior
Field Experiments
Household Behavior: General
- Thema
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Household decision making
Risk
Field experiment
China
Haushaltsökonomik
Feldforschung
Ländlicher Raum
China
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Carlsson, Fredrik
Martinsson, Peter
Qin, Ping
Sutter, Matthias
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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University of Innsbruck, Department of Public Finance
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Innsbruck
- (wann)
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2009
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Carlsson, Fredrik
- Martinsson, Peter
- Qin, Ping
- Sutter, Matthias
- University of Innsbruck, Department of Public Finance
Entstanden
- 2009