look at five different sets of factors (demographics, income, labor market, inheritances, financial decision-making in the … decision-making, we find the gap to be significantly smaller when the female partner manages the money and larger if the male …

Standard household economics assumes that couples pool their incomes and share the sum equally, which is a necessary … poverty. However, since cohabitation without marriage is on the rise and since income pooling is less frequent among … advancement of this paper is the use of panel data, which enables me to account for unobserved heterogeneity at the household …

This paper examines the role of spousal trust in intra-household decision making through its potential of inciting the … perspective, our findings have important implications for the design and evaluation of household-based (saving) interventions by …

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 …