Towards a Behavioural Theory of the Household
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17H02498
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Economic theory
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| Research Institution | National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies |
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Principal Investigator |
Munro Alistair 政策研究大学院大学, 政策研究科, 教授 (10515654)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2017-04-01 – 2020-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2021)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥12,220,000 (Direct Cost: ¥9,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥2,820,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥2,990,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥690,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥6,110,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,410,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥3,120,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥720,000)
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| Keywords | household experiments / behavioral economics / economics experiments / Uganda / Household decisions / Bayes Theorem / household experiment / Japanese households / Intra-household / experimental economics / behavioural economics / experiment / intra-household / decision-making / household / experiments / Japan |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
I do experiments in Uganda and Japan to understand how married couples make decisions. I conducted:
1.The first economics experiment to compare how married couples, individuals and pairs of strangers process new information. Married couples are worse than strangers, but better than individuals. When spouses are advised by their spouses, they listen to advice when they should not. In contrast, strangers ignore advice when they should follow it. 2.An online experiment with Japanese couples on household decision-making and communication. 3.An experiment run in community centres in Tokyo. This it is the first economics experiment with households in Japan. I find couples are extremely reluctant to adjust gender roles even when it would be profitable for them to do so.
I then developed new theories about how households process information. Plans were heavily restricted by the Covid-19 epidemic. To avoid wasting public money, significant parts of the budget were returned unspent.
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
I have pioneered economics experiments with married couples and this methodology has spread around the world to other research groups in Europe and the USA. On the basis of the method, new interventions to improve household well-being have been devised in Africa.
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Research Products
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