Experimental Evidence on Bargaining Power Within Couples

Konferenzbeitrag

We conducted an experiment on the nature of income sharing within 95 established couples in Germany. In a first step, the partners revealed their individual preferences by making consumption choices independently. In a second step, decisions were taken jointly over five different rounds with varying resource allocations between the partners. From this design we are able to derive a female bargaining power index without structural restrictions, reflecting the sharing rule within the couple. We observe this index to increase significantly with the female partner s money allocation. This effect is robust to the inclusion of socio-economic, distributional and behavioural features of the couple.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2014: Evidenzbasierte Wirtschaftspolitik - Session: Family Economics ; No. F03-V2

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Household Production and Intrahousehold Allocation ; Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Group Behavior ; Cooperative Games

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Beblo, Miriam ; Beninger, Denis
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft
• (where): Kiel und Hamburg
• (when): 2014

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/100628
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET