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 …

experiment, these spouses randomly received either only a joint savings device (control) or, additionally, a device for … 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 …

liabilities with individual psychological well-being. -- Savings ; investments ; debts ; marriage ; cohabitation ; gender ; intra-household … savings, investments and debts by couple members, and how these vary by individual and household characteristics. A particular …This paper builds on the existing literature about the distribution of financial resources within the household between …

We explore the link between child gender and household financial decisions within a cultural environment that strongly … favours having a son. Using data from the China Household Finance Survey (CHFS), we find that the presence of a daughter is … marriage market thanks to the relative under-supply of unmarried women, have lower incentives to raise their female heirs …

This paper considers the relationship between work status and decision-making power of the head of household and his … decisions when she has been employed. Similarly, the head of household is less likely to be the sole decision-maker when his … spouse. I use household fixed effects models to address the possibility that spousal work status may be correlated with …

savings, investments and debts by couple members, and how these vary by individual and household characteristics. A particular …This paper builds on the existing literature about the distribution of financial resources within the household between … couple members. Using data from the British Household Panel Study (BHPS) we examine the ownership of, and amounts held in …

This study aims to investigate intra-household bargaining outcomes elicited in an artefactual field experiment design … preferences over commodities. The bargaining process in the experiment was exogenously introduced by sharing information about … partners' preferences in the treatment group. We hypothesized that the spouse with weaker bargaining position at the household …

This paper estimates a household saving rate equation for India and Korea using long-term time series data for the 1975 …-2010 period, focusing in particular on the impact of the pre-marital sex ratio on the household saving rate. To summarize the main … impact on the household saving rate in both India and Korea, even after controlling for the usual suspects such as the aged …

This paper estimates a household saving rate equation for India and the Republic of Korea using longterm time series … data for the 1975-2010 period, focusing in particular on the impact of the premarital sex ratio on the household saving … to females) has a significant impact on the household saving rate in both India and the Republic of Korea, even after …

This paper estimates a household saving rate equation for India and the Republic of Korea using long-term time series … data for the 1975–2010 period, focusing in particular on the impact of the premarital sex ratio on the household saving … to females) has a significant impact on the household saving rate in both India and the Republic of Korea, even after …