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dc.contributor.author | Robinson, Jonathan | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2010-03-22 | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-09-28T12:41:42Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2012-09-28T12:41:42Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2008 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/64516 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This paper presents results from a randomized field experiment to test for the importance of limited commitment (due to incomplete contract enforceability) in explaining intra-household risk sharing arrangements in Kenya. The experiment followed 142 daily income earners and their spouses for 8 weeks. Every week, each individual had a 50% chance of receiving a 150 Kenyan shilling (US $2) income shock (equivalent to about 1.5 days income for men and 1 week's income for women). This paper has 2 main results. First, since the experimental payments are random, they allow for a direct test of allocative Pareto efficiency. I reject efficiency, as male private goods expenditures are sensitive to the receipt of the payment. Second, the experiment varied the level of intra-household correlation in the experimental payments between couples. I find that women send bigger transfers to their husbands when shocks are independent or negatively correlated, a result consistent with the presence of limited commitment. I find no difference in transfers for men, likely because the shocks were too small to cause the limited commitment constraint to bind for them. | en |
dc.language.iso | eng | en |
dc.publisher | |aUniversity of California, Economics Department |cSanta Cruz, CA | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | |aWorking Paper |x639 | en |
dc.subject.jel | C93 | en |
dc.subject.jel | D13 | en |
dc.subject.jel | D61 | en |
dc.subject.jel | O12 | en |
dc.subject.ddc | 330 | en |
dc.subject.stw | Familienökonomik | en |
dc.subject.stw | Privater Transfer | en |
dc.subject.stw | Test | en |
dc.subject.stw | Kenia | en |
dc.title | Limited insurance within the household: Evidence from a field experiment in Kenya | - |
dc.type | Working Paper | en |
dc.identifier.ppn | 587692138 | en |
dc.rights | http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen | en |
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