What’s love got to do with it? An experimental test of household models in East Uganda.
We test core theories of the household using variants of a public good game and experimental data from 240 couples in rural Uganda. Spouses do not maximise surplus from cooperation and realise a greater surplus when women are in charge. This violates assumptions of unitary and cooperative models. Wh...
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| Format: | Working paper |
| Language: | English |
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CSAE (University of Oxford)
2006
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