The influence of spouses on household decision making under risk: an experiment in rural China
通过中国农村家庭的高风险实验，发现配偶的个人风险偏好受家庭财富和妻子收入贡献影响，联合决策更接近丈夫偏好，但高收入或党员妻子影响力更强。
Abstract 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’ individual risk preferences are more similar the richer the household and the higher the wife’s relative income contribution. A couple’s joint decision is typically very similar to the husband’s preferences, but women who contribute relatively more to the household income, women in high-income households, and women with communist party membership have a stronger influence on the joint decision.