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Household decision making and the influence of spouses’ income, education, and communist party membership: A field experiment in rural China
(2009-04-20)
We study household decision making in a high-stakes experiment with a random sample of
households in rural China. Spouses have to choose between risky lotteries, first separately and
then jointly. We find that spouses’ ...
Group Decision Making Under Risk: An experiment with student couples
(2011-12)
In an experiment, we study risk-taking of cohabitating student couples, finding that couples’ decisions are closer to risk-neutrality than single partners’ decisions. This finding is similar to earlier experiments with ...
Social preferences during childhood and the role of gender and age - An experiment in Austria and Sweden
(2010-11)
We examine social preferences of Swedish and Austrian children and adolescents using the experimental design of Charness and Rabin (2002). We find that difference aversion decreases while social-welfare preferences increase ...
Social preferences in childhood and adolescence - A large-scale experiment
(2010-06)
Social preferences have been shown to be an important determinant of economic decision making for many adults. We present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants ...
Household Decision Making in Rural China: Using Experiments to Estimate the Influences of Spouses
(2010-08)
Many economic decisions are made jointly within households. This raises the question about spouses’ relative influence on joint decisions and the determinants of relative influence. Using a controlled experiment (on ...