Carlsson, Fredrik; He, Haoran; Martinsson, Peter; Qin, Ping - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 84 (2012) 2, pp. 525-536
investigate the relative influence of spouses on joint household decisions. We let each spouse first decide individually and then … spouses on joint decisions. We find that joint choices are in between husbands’ and wives’ choices with respect to impatience …, indicating that both spouses have an influence on joint decisions. However, we estimate that in 99% of households husbands have a …