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Household monies and decision-making

Policy Research Paper 23 / Saba Waseem. June 2004

This review studies the literature on within household attitudes and behaviour vis-à-vis money, in order to understand the implications for the wellbeing of individual household members, particularly children. Three types of studies were reviewed:

• Interview-based studies,
• Economic studies, and
• Studies into new family types.

These studies probe couples' attitudes to money and analyse decision-making in terms of who manages the household's finances and who actually controls spending decisions.

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