| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w24977 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 24977 |
| Intrahousehold Consumption Allocation and Demand for Agency: A Triple Experimental Investigation | |
| Uzma Afzal; Giovanna D'; Adda; Marcel Fafchamps; Farah Said | |
| 发表日期 | 2018-09-03 |
| 出版年 | 2018 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We conduct two lab experiments and one field experiment to investigate demand for consumption agency in married couples. The evidence we uncover is consistent across all three experiments. Subjects are often no better at guessing their spouse's preferences than those of a stranger, and many subjects disregard what they believe or know about others' preferences when assigning them a consumption bundle. This confers instrumental value to individual executive agency within the household. We indeed find significant evidence of demand for agency in all three experiments, and this demand varies with the cost and anticipated instrumental benefit of agency. But subjects often make choices incompatible with pure instrumental motives – e.g., paying for agency even when they know their partner assigned them their preferred choice. We also find female subjects to be quite willing to exert agency even though, based on survey responses, they have little executive agency within their household. We interpret this as suggestive of pent-up demand for agency, and indeed we find that female demand for agency falls as a result of an empowerment intervention. |
| 主题 | Microeconomics ; Households and Firms ; Behavioral Economics ; Development and Growth ; Development |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w24977 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/582651 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Uzma Afzal,Giovanna D',Adda,et al. Intrahousehold Consumption Allocation and Demand for Agency: A Triple Experimental Investigation. 2018. |
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