Only Mine or All Ours: Do Stronger Entitlements Affect Altruistic Choices in the Household

Utteeyo Dasgupta and Subha Mani

World Development, 2015, vol. 67, issue C, 363-375

Abstract: We introduce a novel allocation game to investigate the role of entitlements in household decision-making. Subjects can allocate their earnings on joint consumption good, or on gender-specific private consumption good. Subjects’ consumption choices are observed under two treatments: earning with effort, and earning without effort. Women’s choices for the joint consumption good in the household remain largely independent of the treatment. In contrast, men exhibit a stronger preference for private consumption good in the effort treatment. Additionally, using a survey we find that the observed choices in the experiment are consistent with existing social norms in our subject population.

Keywords: extra-lab experiment; household decision-making; entitlement; gender; social norm survey (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.10.021

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