Intra-Household Efficiency: an Experimental Study from Ethiopia

Bereket Kebede, Marcela Tarazona, Alistair Munro and Arjan Verschoor

No wp-2013-012, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: An experimental design using treatments of a voluntary contribution mechanism is used to test household efficiency. Efficiency is decisively rejected in all treatments contrary to the assumption of most household models. Information on initial endowments of spouses improves efficiency only in some treatments suggesting that the impact of information is context dependent. Actual and expected contribution rates of spouses are systematically different; husbands' (wives') expectations of their wives' (husbands') contributions are higher (lower) than actual contributions.

Keywords: Econometric models (Economic development); Game theory; Women (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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Journal Article: Intra-household Efficiency: An Experimental Study from Ethiopia (2014)
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