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Intrahousehold Consumption Allocation and Demand for Agency: A Triple Experimental Investigation

Published:2022-07-01 Issue:3 Volume:14 Page:400-444
ISSN:1945-7782
Container-title:American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
language:en
Short-container-title:American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

Author:

Afzal Uzma¹,d'Adda Giovanna²,Fafchamps Marcel³,Said Farah⁴

Affiliation:

1. New York University Abu Dhabi (email: )

2. University of Milan (email: )

3. Stanford University (email: )

4. Lahore School of Economics (email: )

Abstract

We conduct lab experiments to investigate demand for consumption agency in married couples from Pakistan. Most subjects are no better at guessing their spouse's preferences than those of a stranger, suggesting that individual executive agency has instrumental value. We find significant evidence of demand for agency in all experiments, varying with the cost and anticipated instrumental benefit of agency. But subjects often make choices incompatible with purely instrumental motives—e.g., paying for agency when knowing their partner assigned them their preferred choice. Female subjects are willing to exert agency even when they have little executive agency within their household. (JEL D13, D61, D91, J12, J16, O12)

Publisher

American Economic Association

Subject

General Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Link

https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdf/10.1257/app.20200672

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4. Afzal, Uzma, Giovanna d'Adda, Marcel Fafchamps, and Farah Said. 2022. "Replication Data for: Intrahousehold Consumption Allocation and Demand for Agency: A Triple Experimental Investigation." American Economic Association [publisher], Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor]. https://doi.org/10.3886/E132081V1.

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