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Spousal trust alignment and intra-household cooperation
Sternberg, Henrike; Steinert, Janina; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2024 - This version: September 2024
We implement a binary trust game between 211 married couples from lowincome households in urban India. In a separate experiment, these spouses randomly received either only a joint savings device (control) or, additionally, a device for individual usage (treatment). Combining data from both...
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Intimate partner violence and family planning decisions : experimental evidence from rural Tanzania
McCarthy, Aine Seitz - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 114 (2019), pp. 156-174
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Explaining the gap between the theoretical prediction and experimental evidences about the investment in the spouse's human capital
Liu, Xuemei - In: The journal of socio-economics 38 (2009) 3, pp. 411-414
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Marriage as Punishment
Murray, Melissa - 2011
Popular discourse portrays marriage as a source of innumerable public and private benefits, happiness, companionship … access, the exercise of which is an act of autonomy and free will. However, a closer look at marriage’s past reveals a more … complicated portrait. Marriage has been used - and importantly, continues to be used - as state-imposed sexual discipline. Until …
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Identifying the Causal Effect of Alcohol Abuse on the Perpetration of Intimate Partner Violence by Men Using a Natural Experiment
Averett, Susan L. - 2014
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is widespread among women, with substantial and long-lasting negative consequences …
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An Experimental Investigation of Intra-Household Resource Allocation in Rural India
Kulkarni, Savita - 2018
This study aims to investigate intra-household bargaining outcomes elicited in an artefactual field experiment design where participants completed a purchase task of real commodities. Married couples separately expressed their initial preferences over commodities. The bargaining process in the...
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Perceived abilities and gender stereotypes within the household : experimental evidence from Bangladesh
Nani, Carlotta - 2024
Is it possible to improve women's agency by providing information about their abilities? Using a lab experiment in the field, I study how perceived abilities and gender stereotypes shape intra-household dynamics. I use an incentivized decision-making game with 525 married couples from 42 rural...
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Spousal control and intra-household decision making: an experimental study in the Philippines
Ashraf, Nava - In: The American economic review 99 (2009) 4, pp. 1245-1277
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Deciding to Divorce : Separation Initiation and Experience
Brüning, Max - 2021
At the heart of economic and sociological thinking on divorce lies the idea that a couple divorces if at least one spouse expects to improve their life in doing so. De facto, divorces are predominantly initiated by one spouse alone. This might suggest that one spouse typically benefits from...
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Can't Buy Me Love : A Field Experiment Exploring the Trade-off Between Income and Caste-Status in an Indian Matrimonial Market
Dugar, Subhasish - 2010
reputable arranged-marriage market that is prone to strong caste-status based discrimination. We place newspaper advertisements …
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