This article explores the aggregate effects of women's empowerment on intra- and intertemporal household choices within …. Emphasis is placed on the role of attitudes towards risk and subsistence consumption. In this context, we find that as women … get more empowered, we assume that households show a higher risk aversion reflecting the more risk adverse women …

This paper looks at household consumption and financial decisions made in a matrilineal society where women are … Christian missionaries who proclaimed that the role of the household manager is ascribed to men and not to women. Using self …-collected data of 650 individuals from the matrilineal state of Meghalaya, India, and exploring household's distance to the …