Data and Code for: The Good Wife? Reputation Dynamics and Financial Decision-Making Inside the Household

This package contains the replication package for “The Good Wife? Reputation Dynamics and Financial Decision-Making Inside the Household” by Nina Buchmann, Pascaline Dupas, and Roberta Ziparo. It contains all data and code necessary for replicating the tables and figures in the paper. The data files are in Stata (.dta), and the replication code was written in Stata. Replication of the tables and figures will take approximately 10 minutes. <br><br>The abstract of the associated paper is as follows:<br>We study reputation dynamics within the household in a setting where women regularly receive transfers from their husbands for household purchases. We propose a signaling model in which wives try to maintain a good reputation in the eyes of their husband to receive high transfers. This leads them to (a) avoid risky purchases (goods with unknown returns); and (b) knowingly over-use low-return goods to hide bad purchase decisions—we call this the intra-household sunk cost effect. We present supportive evidence for the model from a series of experiments with married couples in rural Malawi<br>