increase intra-household efficiency. We conducted a field-laboratory experiment in Kenya where individuals in established …

children. In our model workers face uninsurable idiosyncratic risks and make decisions on savings, labor supply, living … arrangement, and marital status. We find that the U.S. anti-poverty policy distorts the cohabitation/marriage decision of single … mothers, providing incentives to cohabit. We also find quantitatively important effects on savings, and on the labor supply of …

marriage market thanks to the relative under-supply of unmarried women, have lower incentives to raise their female heirs …

less competitive marriage market for families with daughters vs. those with sons. As a result, such families have lower …

supplementary receipt of the private device significantly increased the wife's savings in couples with a low level of spousal trust … more effective hiding of the wife's savings amounts, facilitated through the private saving device. From a policy …