%0 Report
        %A Carlsson, Fredrik
%A He, Haoran
%A Martinsson, Peter
%A Qin, Ping
%A Sutter, Matthias
        %T Household Decision Making in Rural China: Using Experiments to Estimate the Influences of Spouses
        %D 2010
        %8 2010 Aug
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 5127
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp5127
        %X Many economic decisions are made jointly within households. This raises the question about spouses' relative influence on joint decisions and the determinants of relative influence. Using a controlled experiment (on inter-temporal choice), we let each spouse first make individual decisions and then make joint decisions with the other spouse. We use a random parameter probit model to measure the relative influence of spouses on joint decisions. In general, husbands have a stronger influence than wives. However, in richer households and when the wife is older than the husband, we find a significantly stronger influence of the wife on joint decisions.
        %K household decision making
%K spouses
%K relative influence
%K random parameter model
%K field experiment
%K time preferences