The influence of spouses on household decision making under risk: an experiment in rural China

Experimental Economics - Tập 16 Số 3 - Trang 383-401 - 2013
Fredrik Carlsson1, Peter Martinsson1, Ping Qin2, Matthias Sutter1,3
1Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
2School of Economics, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China
3Department of Public Finance, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

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