TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Carlsson, Fredrik
AU  - He, Haoran
AU  - Martinsson, Peter
AU  - Qin, Ping
AU  - Sutter, Matthias
        TI  - Household Decision Making in Rural China: Using Experiments to Estimate the Influences of Spouses
        PY  - 2010/Aug/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 5127
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp5127
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - household decision making
KW  - spouses
KW  - relative influence
KW  - random parameter model
KW  - field experiment
KW  - time preferences
        ER  -