To understand the household decision-making process regarding food expenditures for children in poor households in … Nairobi, we conduct an experiment with 424 married couples. In the experiment, the spouses (individually and jointly … correlate with more traditional indicators. Finally, we document significant heterogeneity both between individuals and intra-household …

To understand the household decision-making process regarding food expenditures for children in poor households in … Nairobi, we conduct an experiment with 424 married couples. In the experiment, the spouses (individually and jointly … correlate with more traditional indicators. Finally, we document significant heterogeneity both between individuals and intra-household …

We study with a sample of 1,070 primary school children, aged seven to eleven years, how altruism in a donation … experiment is related to children's risk attitudes and intertemporal choices. Examining such a relationship is motivated by … theories of reciprocal altruism that provide a cornerstone to understand human social behavior. We find that higher risk …