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Why does real-time information reduce energy consumption?
Lynham, John; Nitta, Kohei; Saijo, Tatsuyoshi; Tarui, Nori - Department of Economics, University of Hawaii-Manoa - 2014
randomized-control trial with residential households. The experiment disentangles two competing mechanisms: (i) learning about …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011122644
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Individual and Couple Decision Behavior under Risk:The Power of Ultimate Control
de Palma, André; Picard, Nathalie; Ziegelmeyer, Anthony - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2008
This paper reports results of an experiment designed to analyze the link between riskydecisions made by couples and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005866693
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Women, children and patience: experimental evidence from Indian villages
Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie - 2009
In this paper we study the link between women's responsibility for children and their preferences. We use a large random sample of individuals living in rural India, incentive compatible measures of patience and risk aversion, and detailed survey data. We find more patient choices among women...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330095
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Feed the children
Cherchye, Laurens; Chiappori, Pierre-André; De Rock, Bram - 2021
Nairobi, we conduct an experiment with 424 married couples. In the experiment, the spouses (individually and jointly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012816069
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Of housewives and feminists: Gender norms and intra-household division of labour
Görges, Luise - 2021
To investigate the role of gender norms in household specialisation choices, I conduct a lab experiment with real …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012523386
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Feed the Children
Cherchye, Laurens; Chiappori, Pierre-André; De Rock, Bram - 2021
Nairobi, we conduct an experiment with 424 married couples. In the experiment, the spouses (individually and jointly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012658266
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Measuring the relative productivity of multitasking to sole-tasking in household production: New experimental evidence
Foster, Gigi; Kalenkoski, Charlene - 2012
We present a household production model that incorporates multitasking and results from a customized experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283947
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Measuring the Relative Productivity of Multitasking to Sole-tasking in Household Production: New Experimental Evidence
Foster, Gigi; Kalenkoski, Charlene M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We present a household production model that incorporates multitasking and results from a customized experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212750
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Efficiency versus Stereotypes: an Experiment in Domestic Production
Couprie, Hélène; Cudeville, Elisabeth; Sofer, Catherine - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 … - 2015
decisions, using an experimental design in which subjects are real couples. The aim of the experiment is to mimic the sharing of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011194456
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What’s love got to do with it ? An experimental test of household models in East Uganda.
Munro, Alistair; Kebede, Bereket; Iversen, Vegard; … - Department of Economics, Royal Holloway University of London - 2006
We test core theories of the household using variants of a public good game and experimental data from 240 couples in rural Uganda. Spouses do not maximise surplus from cooperation and realise a greater surplus when women are in charge. This violates assumptions of unitary and cooperative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005652697