Replication data for: Spousal Control and Intra-household Decision Making: An Experimental Study in the Philippines

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Project Citation:

Ashraf, Nava. Replication data for: Spousal Control and Intra-household Decision Making: An Experimental Study in the Philippines. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2009. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-12-07. https://doi.org/10.3886/E116304V1

Project Description

Summary: I elicit causal effects of spousal observability and communication on financial choices of married individuals in the Philippines. When choices are private, men put money into their personal accounts. When choices are observable, men commit money to consumption for their own benefit. When required to communicate, men put money into their wives' account. These strong treatment effects on men, but not women, appear related more to control than to gender: men whose wives control household savings respond more strongly to the treatment and women whose husbands control savings exhibit the same response. Changes in information and communication interact with underlying control to produce mutable gender-specific outcomes. (JEL D13, D14, J12, J16, O15)

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:
      D13 Household Production and Intrahousehold Allocation
      D14 Household Saving; Personal Finance
      J12 Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse
      J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
      O15 Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration

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V1 [2019-12-07]

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