Mothers Care More, But Fathers Decide: Educating Parents about Child Health in Uganda
研究比较了乌干达中只让母亲或只让父亲参加健康课程的效果，发现教育母亲更能促进家庭采纳健康行为，且对配偶有正向溢出效应。
Research on intrahousehold decision-making generally finds that fathers have more bargaining power than mothers, but mothers put more weight on children's well-being. This suggests a tradeoff when targeting policies to improve child health: fathers have more power to change household behavior in ways that improve child health, but mothers might have a stronger desire to do so. This paper compares health classes in Uganda that enrolled either mothers or fathers. We find that educating mothers leads to greater adoption of health-promoting behaviors by the household. In addition, educating one parent leads to positive spillovers on the other spouse's health behaviors.