Women, children and patience: experimental evidence from Indian villages

0398475 - NHÚ 2014 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
Bauer, Michal - Chytilová, J.
Women, children and patience: experimental evidence from Indian villages.
Review of Development Economics. Roč. 17, č. 4 (2013), s. 662-675. ISSN 1363-6669. E-ISSN 1467-9361
Institutional support: RVO:67985998
Keywords : India * gender differences * patience
Subject RIV: AH - Economics
Impact factor: 0.500, year: 2013

Researchers have observed that women in developing countries often make more development friendly choices than men. We implemented experimental tasks among a large and diverse sample of married individuals in rural India and found women to make on average more patient and more risk-averse choices than men. We find important heterogeneity in gender differences in patience: there is no difference for spouses with no children but patience levels diverge if there are small children in a family. The findings imply that conflicting spousal preferences are most likely in poor families with children.
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