Munro, Alistair; Kebede, Bereket; Iversen, Vegard; … - Department of Economics, Royal Holloway University of London - 2006
We test core theories of the household using variants of a public good game and experimental data from 240 couples in rural Uganda. Spouses do not maximise surplus from cooperation and realise a greater surplus when women are in charge. This violates assumptions of unitary and cooperative...