scholarly journals Spousal Control and Intra-Household Decision Making: An Experimental Study in the Philippines

2009 ◽  
Vol 99 (4) ◽  
pp. 1245-1277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nava Ashraf
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Causal Effects ◽  
Household Savings ◽  
Household Decision ◽  
Household Decision Making ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Married Individuals ◽  
Personal Accounts ◽  
Gender Specific

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)

scholarly journals Household Bargaining and Excess Fertility: An Experimental Study in Zambia

2014 ◽  
Vol 104 (7) ◽  
pp. 2210-2237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nava Ashraf ◽  
Erica Field ◽  
Jean Lee
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Experimental Study ◽  
Family Planning ◽  
Moral Hazard ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Family Planning Services ◽  
Household Decision ◽  
Household Decision Making ◽  
Access To Contraception

We posit that household decision-making over fertility is characterized by moral hazard since most contraception can only be perfectly observed by the woman. Using an experiment in Zambia that varied whether women were given access to contraceptives alone or with their husbands, we find that women given access with their husbands were 19 percent less likely to seek family planning services, 25 percent less likely to use concealable contraception, and 27 percent more likely to give birth. However, women given access to contraception alone report a lower subjective well-being, suggesting a psychosocial cost of making contraceptives more concealable. (JEL C78, D12, D82, I31, J13, J16, O15)

Working Women’s Decision-Making Power at Home: Evidence from Four North Indian Urban Clusters

Urbanisation ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 245574712110258
Author(s):  
Megan Maxwell ◽  
Milan Vaishnav
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Working Women ◽  
Human Agency ◽  
Significant Heterogeneity ◽  
Household Decision ◽  
Household Decision Making ◽  
Theoretical Foundations ◽  
Shed Light

Do working women enjoy greater levels of human agency? While the theoretical foundations underlying this connection are clear, the empirical evidence is quite mixed. We leverage detailed, new data on intra-household decision-making and labour market behaviour from four north Indian urban clusters to shed light on this question. We find that women who work exercise greater say in important decisions around the home. However, this ‘work advantage’ exhibits significant heterogeneity across decision types, decision-making domains, and definitions of work.

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