TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Carlsson, Fredrik
AU  - Martinsson, Peter
AU  - Qin, Ping
AU  - Sutter, Matthias
        TI  - Household Decision Making and the Influence of Spouses' Income, Education, and Communist Party Membership: A Field Experiment in Rural China
        PY  - 2009/Apr/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 4139
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp4139
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - household decision making
KW  - risk
KW  - field experiment
KW  - China
        ER  -