This paper examines the role of spousal trust in intra-household decision making through its potential of inciting the … 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 …

justifiably trusting their husbands), higher savings were achieved through wives' increased involvement in household decisions … higher savings. Our findings encourage household-based interventions to consider spouses' (mis)perceptions about intra-household … experiment, these spouses randomly received either only a joint savings device (control) or, additionally, a device for …