Replication Data for: Spousal Control and Intra-household Decision Making: An Experimental Study in the Philippines

I elicit causal effects of spousal observability and communication on financial choices of married individuals in the Philippines. When choices are private, men put money into their personal accounts. When choices are observable, men commit money to consumption for their own benefit. When required to communicate, men put money into their wives' account. These strong treatment effects on men, but not women, appear related more to control than to gender: men whose wives control household savings respond more strongly to the treatment and women whose husbands control savings exhibit the same response. Changes in information and communication interact with underlying control to produce mutable gender-specific outcomes.

本研究旨在探究菲律宾已婚个体的配偶间可观察性与沟通行为对其财务决策的因果效应。当财务决策为私密情境时，男性会将资金存入个人储蓄账户；当决策可被配偶观察时，男性会将资金用于自身获益的消费；当被要求与配偶沟通财务决策时，男性则会将资金存入妻子的账户。这些对男性而非女性产生的显著处理效应，与其说与性别相关，不如说与家庭财务掌控权有关：妻子掌控家庭储蓄的男性对干预的反应更为强烈，而丈夫掌控储蓄的女性也会表现出相同的反应模式。信息与沟通的变化会与潜在的家庭掌控权结构相互作用，进而产生因性别而异的可变结果。