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ToolsD'Exelle, Ben and Ringdal, Charlotte (2025) Who decides in the household when risk preferences conflict? Review of Economics of the Household. ISSN 1573-7152
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Women’s low involvement in household decisions is an important cause of the persistence of gender inequality in developing countries, as it constrains women’s access to resources and opportunities. Despite its importance, little is known about the behavioral mechanisms behind women’s low involvement. Guided by a simple theoretical model, we hypothesize that women may refrain from participating in household decisions to avoid spousal conflict, the likelihood of which increases with spousal differences in risk preferences. Using survey data from both spouses of 675 couples in rural Tanzania, we find that spousal differences in risk preferences are associated with a lower likelihood that spouses make decisions jointly and a higher likelihood that decisions are made by the husband alone. These relations are stronger in couples where women are more conflict-averse.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Data availability statement: Data will be made available upon request. Funding information: We acknowledge the financial support of the ESRC-DFID grant ES/N014618/1. This work was partially supported by the Research Council of Norway through its Centres of Excellence Scheme, FAIR project No 262675. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | conflict aversion,household decision-making,risk preferences,economics and econometrics,social sciences (miscellaneous) ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2000/2002 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Global Development (formerly School of International Development) |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Centre for Behavioural and Experimental Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Behavioural Economics Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Behavioural and Experimental Development Economics Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Environment, Resources and Conflict Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Gender and Development Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Impact Evaluation |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Mar 2025 16:30 |
| Last Modified: | 28 Apr 2025 15:30 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/98880 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11150-025-09771-8 |
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