Intrahousehold Consumption Allocation and Demand for Agency: A Triple Experimental Investigation
通过实验室实验，研究巴基斯坦已婚夫妇对消费决策代理权的需求，发现多数人并不比陌生人更了解配偶偏好，且代理需求受成本和预期收益影响，但女性即使在家中没有决策权也愿意为代理付费。
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.