Spousal Control and Intra-Household Decision Making: An Experimental Study in the Philippines
在菲律宾对已婚人士进行实验，发现配偶能否观察和沟通会显著影响丈夫的财务决策，但对妻子影响不大，且这种效应与家庭中谁控制储蓄有关。
I elicit causal effects of spousal observability and communication on financial choices of married individuals in the Philippines. When choices are private, men put money into their personal accounts. When choices are observable, men commit money to consumption for their own benefit. When required to communicate, men put money into their wives' account. These strong treatment effects on men, but not women, appear related more to control than to gender: men whose wives control household savings respond more strongly to the treatment and women whose husbands control savings exhibit the same response. Changes in information and communication interact with underlying control to produce mutable gender-specific outcomes.