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Household decision making in rural china : using experiments to estimate the influences of spouses

Carlsson, Frederik; He, Haoran; Martinsson, Peter; Qin, Ping - 2010

Many economic decisions are made jointly within households. This raises the question about spouses' relative influence … parameter probit model to measure the relative influence of spouses on joint decisions. In general, husbands have a stronger … stronger influence of the wife on joint decisions. -- household decision making ; spouses ; relative influence ; random …

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Household decision making and the influence of spouses' income, education, and communist party membership : a field experiment in rural China

Carlsson, Frederik; Martinsson, Peter; Qin, Ping; … - 2009

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 … stronger influence on the joint decision. -- Household decision making ; risk ; field experiment ; China …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003831912

Household behavioral preferences and the child labor-education trade-off : framed field experimental evidence from Ethiopia

Basu, Arnab K.; Dimova, Ralitza - 2020

Using data from the Rural Ethiopian Household Survey, which contains a behavioral module, we explore the link between adult risk and time preferences and the incidence and the intensity of child labor. While as expected child labor at both the extensive and the intensive margin is a result of...

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Substitution effects in parental investments

Brandt, Loren; Siow, Aloysius; Wang, Hui - 2009

their schooling investments in rural China. The main estimate implies that when a son receives one yuan less in schooling … ; marriage market ; transfers …

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Household preferences and child labor in rural Ethiopia

Basu, Arnab K.; Dimova, Ralitza - 2021

This paper revisits the causes behind child labor supply by focusing on an aspect that has received little attention: the link between the household head's risk and time preferences and observed child labor supply. We develop a theoretical model and empirically test for this causality using data...

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Financial literacy, risk and time preferences: results from a randomized educational intervention

Sutter, Matthias; Weyland, Michael; Untertrifaller, Anna; … - 2020

We present the results of a randomized intervention in schools to study how teaching financial literacy affects risk and time preferences of adolescents. Following more than 600 adolescents, aged 16 years on average, over about half a year, we provide causal evidence that teaching financial...

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Financial literacy, experimental preference measures and field behavior : a randomized educational intervention

Sutter, Matthias; Weyland, Michael; Untertrifaller, Anna; … - 2023

We present the results of a randomized intervention to study how teaching financial literacy to 16-year old high-school students affects their behavior in risk and time preference tasks. Compared to two different control treatments, we find that teaching financial literacy makes subjects behave...

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Is patience malleable via educational intervention? : evidence on the role of age in field experiments

Kaiser, Tim; Menkhoff, Lukas; Oberrauch, Luis - 2023

We study the age-dependent malleability of patience via educational interventions designed to foster financial decision-making capabilities and to induce a more future-oriented mindset. We conduct a field experiment covering both youths and adults in Uganda and aggregate evidence from earlier...

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China's sex ratio and crime : behavioral change or financial necessity?

Cameron, Lisa Ann; Meng, Xin; Zhang, Dandan - 2016

rising criminality in China. Consistent with socio-biological research on other species, we find that China's high sex … pressure on men to appear financially attractive in order to find a partner in the marriage market. These marriage market …

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Does marital status affect how firms interpret job applicants' un/employment histories?

Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Wang, Sili - 2018

affect their chances of obtaining interviews through China's Internet job boards. It also considers whether firms … to explore the effects of both marital status and unemployment spells in hiring in the context of China's dynamic …

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