The Good Wife? Reputation Dynamics and Financial Decision-Making Inside the Household

We are immensely grateful to Aaron Wolf and Maxim Bakhtin for outstanding research assistance, and to all our study participants for their time and attention. The data collection was done with the assistance of IKI Malawi. The research protocols were approved by the Stanford IRB and the Malawi National Committee on Research in the Social Sciences and Humanities. The experimental designs were pre-registered in the AEA RCT registry (ID 4069). We gratefully acknowledge funding from Stanford University. We thank Renadu Bourl�s, Lukas Bolte, Marcel Fafchamps, Yucheng Liang, Madeline McKelway, Muriel Niederle, Agathe Pernoud, Collin Raymond, David Romer, Erik Snowberg, Alessandra Voena, Leeat Yariv and seminar audiences at Stanford's Eddie's Lunch, Stanford's Gender Coffee, THreD, Penn State, UCL, Bristol, the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics conference, the CEPR Women in Economics Conference, the North-American Economic Science Association Conference, the 8th Early-Career Behavioral Economics Conference, Berkeley, Princeton, and the NYU BREAD 2021 conference for very helpful comments. All errors are our own. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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