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Experimental evidence on bargaining power within couples : conference paper
Beninger, Denis; Beblo, Miriam - 2014
We conducted an experiment on the nature of income sharing within 95 established couples in Germany. In a first step, the partners revealed their individual preferences by making consumption choices independently. In a second step, decisions were taken jointly over five different rounds with...
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Coupling labor supply decisions : an experiment in India
Lowe, Matt; McKelway, Madeline - 2021
Joint household decision-making may be prevented by the incentives of individuals to withhold information or avoid bargaining. We study whether these barriers to joint decision-making keep female labor force participation low in India. In partnership with one of India’s largest carpet...
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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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Can child marriage law change attitudes and behaviour? : experimental evidence from an information intervention in Bangladesh
Amirapu, Amrit; Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Wahhaj, Zaki - 2020
The practice of child marriage is ubiquitous in developing countries, where one in three girls is married before the age of 18. Although most developing countries have a legal minimum age of marriage, in practice marriage age is determined by social norms rather than the law. In this paper, we...
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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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Social norms or income taxation : what drives couple's labor supply? ; experimental evidence ; conference paper
Schröder, Melanie; Schmitt, Norma; Mantei, Britta; … - 2014 - This version: February 2014, Preliminary version
We investigate the determinants of couples labor supply within an experimental setting. On the one hand, we are interested in the effect of taxes on couples labor supply, but on the other hand we focus on factors beyond purely economic incentives: the role of the social norm of a male...
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Coupling Labor Supply Decisions : An Experiment in India
Lowe, Matt; McKelway, Madeline - 2021
Joint household decision-making may be prevented by the incentives of individuals to withhold information or avoid bargaining. We study whether these barriers to joint decision-making keep female labor force participation low in India. In partnership with one of India’s largest carpet...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013312075
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Productive Play Time : The Effect of Practice on Consumer Demand for Hedonic Experiences
Murray, Kyle B.; Bellman, Steven - 2013
In this paper we explain how practice, prior knowledge and task difficulty interact to affect demand for hedonic experiences. As predicted by the human capital model, we propose that the key determinant of demand for hedonic experiences is the increase in performance efficiency that can be...
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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, financial security, and even good health. Complementing this view, our legal discourse frames the right to marry as a right of access, the exercise of which is an act of autonomy...
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The likelihood of divorce and the riskiness of financial decisions
Stark, Oded; Szczygielski, Krzysztof - 2019
divorce. Our point of departure is that when comparing single men to married men, the former manage their finances in a more … of divorce and, hence, on the likelihood of re-entry into the marriage market: married men in environments that are more … prone to divorce exhibit risk-taking behavior that is more similar to that of single men than married men in environments …
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