Limited insurance within the household: evidence from a field experiment in Kenya

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Does female empowerment promote economic development? (2011, methodology): “Similarly, Robinson (2012) relies on a field experiment in Kenya to document that men have a substantially higher propensity to save out of transfers.”
Women Empowerment and Economic Development (2012, result): “Robinson (2011) has a similar finding from an experiment in Kenya, where husbands and wives were given small transfers over a period of a few weeks.”
Risk Pooling, Risk Preferences, and Social Networks (2012, background): “As Sadoulet (2000), Legros and Newman (2007), and Chiappori and Reny (2004) have shown, additional transfers could result in negative assortative matching among close friends and family members.”
Intrahousehold Bargaining, Female Autonomy, and Labor Supply: Theory and Evidence from India (2020, result): “In accordance with recent literature that shows that outcomes between husbands and wives are not necessarily efficient (Duflo and Udry 2004; Robinson 2012; Hoel 2013), our main model is a noncooperative model that does not impose Pareto efficiency.4 After deriving predictions from this model, we…”