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Households.
Ashraf, N.
(2005): Spousal Control and Intra-Household
Decision Making: An Experimental Study in the
Philippines, Job Market Paper no. 1, Harvard
University.
Peters, E.
H., A. N. Unur, J. Clark and W.D. Schulze (2004):
Free-Riding and the Provision of Public Goods in
the Family: A Laboratory Experiment,
International Economic Review, 45 (1), pp.
283-299.
Other
groups.
Bone, John, John Hey
and John Suckling, 1999, Are Groups More or Less
Consistent Than Individuals?, Journal of Risk and
Uncertainty, 8, 63-81.
Bone, John, John Hey
and John Suckling, 2000, A Simple Risk-Sharing
Experiment, University of York Discussion papers in
Economics, No. 2000/36.
Güth
W., Ivanova-Stenzel R., Sutter M., Weck-Hannemann H.
(2003): 'Investment and bargaining in joint ventures:
a family decision making experiment', Journal of
Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 159
(2), pp. 323–41.
Güth, Werner Radosveta Ivanova-Stenze
and Sigve Tjotta,
2004,
Please, Marry Me! An Experimental Study of Risking a
Joint Venture
Metroeconomica,
Volume 55 Page 1 -
February 2004
Harbaugh, W., K. Krause and T. Berry, 2001, "GARP for Kids:
On the Development of Rational Choice Behavior,"
American Economic Review, December.
Hill, G. W. (1982),
Group vs. Individual Performance: Are N+1 Heads Better
than One? Psychological Bulletin, 91, 517-539.
Kocher,
Martin G. Matthias Sutter, 2005, The Decision Maker
Matters: Individual Versus Group Behaviour in
Experimental Beauty-Contest Games, The Economic
Journal, Volume 115, Issue 500, Page 200-223,
Jan |
Other economics experiments.
The roll of honour is small. To my knowledge, the
Elizabeth Peters et al paper is the first
published experiment using family groups, although
the sample is a mix of parents and children, often
with only one parent present.
Of firmly related interest is the work by
Bill
Harbaugh and
colleagues at the U. of Oregon on children's
decision-making. I've put in only one reference but
many more can be found by following the link.
There is also a much larger literature on group
decision-making much of which is concerned with
comparing group-decisions to those made by
individuals, but some of it can be usefully compared to
what happens in the household.
I've included in this category a series of papers by
a group at the
Max Planck institute
who pair male and female student subjects and then test
induced theories of behaviour.
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Beatty, Sharon E.
and Salil Talpade (1994), “Adolescent Influence in
Family Decision making: A Replication and
Extension,” Journal of Consumer Research, 21
(September), 332-341.
Corfman,
Kim. P. and Donald. R. Lehmann, (1987): Models of
cooperative group decision-making and relative
influence: An experimental investigation of family
purchase decisions. Journal of Consumer Research,
14: 1-13.
Corfman, Kim P.
(1987), “Group Decision Making and Relative
Influence When Preferences Differ: A Conceptual
Framework,” in Research in Consumer Behavior,
Vol. 2,
Elizabeth C. Hirschman and Jagdish N. Sheth, eds.,
Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 223‑257.
Davis, Harry L.
(1976), “Decision Making within the Household,”
Journal of Consumer Research, 2 (March), 241-260.
Qualls, William J.
(1987), “Household Decision Behavior: The Impact of
Husbands’ and Wives’ Sex Role Orientation,” Journal
of Consumer Research, 14 (September), 264-279.
Spiro, Rosann L.
(1983), “Persuasion in Family Decision-Making,”
Journal of Consumer Research, 9 (March), 393-402. |
Psychology.
Social psychology and
consumer behaviour research throws up some interesting
behaviour albeit usually in the context of
hypothetical experiments which are asking for
replication with real incentives. |
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Theory.
Becker, G.
(1965): A Theory of the Allocation of Time,
Economic Journal, 75, 493-517.
Becker,
Gary S., (1974): A theory of social interactions,
Journal of Political Economy, vol. 82 (6),
1063-1093.
Bergstrom,
T. C., (1989), A fresh look at the rotten kid
theorem and other household mysteries, Journal
of Political Economy, 97(5), 1138-1159.
Bergstrom, T. C., L. Blume and H.
Varian, (1986), On the private provision of public
goods, Journal of Public Economics, 29, 25-49.
Bolin, K., L. Jacobson and B.
Lindgren, (2002), The family as the health producer -
when spouses act strategically, Journal of Health
Economics, 21: 475-495.
Chen Z. and F. Woolley, (2001), A
Cournot-Nash Model of Family Decision-making,
Economic. Journal.,111, 722-748.
Kandori, M., (2002), Introduction
to Repeated Games with Private Monitoring, Journal
of Economic Theory, 102, 1-15.
Ligon,
(2002): Dynamic Bargaining in Households (with an
application to Bangladesh), Department of
Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of
California at Berkeley.
Lundberg,
S. and R. Pollak (1993): Separate spheres
bargaining and the marriage market, Journal of
Political Economy, 101, pp. 988-1010.
Lundberg S. J.,
Pollak R. A. (1996): 'Bargaining and distribution
in marriage',
Journal of
Economic Perspectives, 10, pp. 139–58.
Manser, M
and M. Brown (1980): Marriage and Household
Decision-Making: A Bargaining Analysis,
International Economic Review, 21 (1), pp.
31-44.
McElroy, M.
and M. J. Horney (1981): Nash-Bargained Household
Decisions: Toward a generalisation of the theory of
demand, International Economic Review, 22
(2).
Quiggin, J., (1998), Individual
and household willingness to pay for public goods,
American Journal of Agricultural Economics,
80, 58-63.
Sen, A.
(1990), “Gender and Cooperative Conflicts”, Chapter
8 in Persistent Inequalities: Women and World
Development, edited by I. Tinker, Oxford,
Oxford University Press.
Strand J. and S. Aabø, , (2002),
Public-good valuation and intrafamily allocation,
Department of Economics Working Paper, University of
Oslo, Norway
Ulph, D.
(1988): A General Non-Cooperative Model of
Household Behaviour, mimeo, University of Bristol.
Warr, P. G., (1983) The private
provision of a public good is independent of the
distribution of income, Economics Letters,
13, 207-11.
Woolley, F.
(1988): A non-cooperative model of family
decision-making, Working Paper TIDI/125, London
School of Economics.
Formal empirical tests.
Alderman,
H., P. A. Chiappori, L. Haddad, J. Hoddinott and R.
Kanbur (1995): Unitary vs. Collective models of the
household: Is it time to shift the burden of proof
?, World Bank Research Observer, 10 (1), pp.
1-19.
Behrman, J.
(1988): Nutrition, Health, Birth Order and
Seasonality: Intrahousehold Allocation among
Children in Rural India, Journal of Development
Economics, 28 (7), pp. 42-63.
Browning,
Martin, and Pierre-Andre Chiappori, (1998):
Efficient intra-household allocations: a general
characterisation and empirical tests.
Econometrica 66 (6), 1241–1278.
Doss, C., (1996), Testing among
models of intrahousehold resource allocation,
World Development, 24(10), 1597-1609.
Haddad, L.,
J. Hoddinott and H. Alderman (1997):
Intrahousehold resource allocation in developing
countries: Methods, models and policy, John
Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
Hoddinott,
J. and L. Haddad (1995): “Does female income share
influence household expenditure patterns ?,”
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 57
(1), pp. 77-96.
Jones, C.
W. (1983): Mobilisation of women’s labour for cash
crop production: a game theoretic approach,
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 65
(5), pp. 1049-1054.
Lampietti, J., (1999) Do
husbands and wives make the same choices? Evidence
from Northern Ethiopia, Economics. Letters,
62 (2): 253-260.
Lundberg,
Shelly J., Robert A. Pollak and Terence J. Wales,
(1997): Do Husbands and Wives Pool Their Resources?
Evidence from the United Kingdom Child Benefit,
Journal of Human Resources, Vol. 32, No. 3.
(Summer,), pp. 463-480.
Phipps,
Shelley A., and Burton Peter S., (1998): What's
Mine is yours? The influence of male and female
incomes on patterns of household expenditure,
Economica, 65, 599-613.
Thomas, D.
(1990): “Intrahousehold resource allocations – an
inferential approach,” Journal of Human
Resources, 25, pp. 635-64.
Udry, C.
(1996): “Gender, Agricultural Production and the
Theory of the Household,” Journal of Political
Economy, 104 (5), pp. 1010-1046.
Other.
Farmer, A.
and J. Tiefenhaler (1995): “Fairness concepts and
the intrahousehold allocation of resources,”
Journal of Development Economics, 47, pp.
179-189.
Pahl, Jan,
(1990): Household spending, personal spending and
the control of money in marriage, Sociology,
24:1, 119-138.
Woolley,
Frances, (2000): Control over Money in Marriage,
Carleton Economic Papers 0-07.
Burgoyne, C.B., Clarke, V., & Reibstein, J. 2003,
‘”All my worldly goods I share with you”? Ownership
and management of money in couples about to be
married.’ Paper presented at 2003 IAREP Conference
on Household Economic Decisions: Earning, Sharing,
Spending and Investing Money, Agder College,
Kristiansand, Norway, Dec. 5th-7th |
Other related material
This is a mixture
of theory, some of the fieldwork and econometrics
which tests theories of the household and a few
observational studies which I've placed under the
inspired heading of 'other'. In many
instances these provide the most interesting
material for future experimental work and new
theories.
In the latter group,
Carol Burgoyne at
Exeter is worth mentioning for the interesting work
she's doing on money management in couples. |
