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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’ ...
Subjective well-being among preadolescents - Evidence from urban China
(2011-05)
We examine what factors are correlated with subjective well-being among Chinese preadolescents. In particular, we investigate whether preadolescents’ subjective well-being is correlated with their parents’ subjective ...
Long-run effects of family policies: An experimental study of the Chinese one-child policy
(2018-05)
We present lab-in-the-field experimental evidence of the effects of the Chinese one-child policy on individuals’ preferences and behavior as adults. The experiments were conducted in three different provinces because the ...
Gender Differences in Competitiveness: Experimental Evidence from China
(2019-06)
Experimental evidence from both the lab and the field shows that women on average have a lower propensity to enter a competitive environment. In this paper, we investigate gender differences in competitiveness using a ...