Causes and consequences of personal financial management in the case of larger and structural charitable donations

We study causes and consequences of financial management in households in the specific case of charitable giving. We test hypotheses using couples in the Giving in the Netherlands Panel Study (n = 1,101). We find that more relationship specific investments lead to deciding on charitable giving as one economic actor. Furthermore, we find that the partner with the highest relative educational resources has most decision making power over charitable donations. Separately deciding couples are smallest charitable donors. Households in which the male partner decides are largest charitable donors when only larger and more structural donations are considered. This can be explained by their more conservative religious denomination. Re´sume´ Notre e´tude porte sur les causes et les conse´quences de la gestion financie`re des me´nages pour le cas spe´cifique des dons caritatifs. Nous testons des hypothe`ses a` travers un panel de quelques couples des Pays-Bas (GINPS) en matie`re de dons (n = 1,101). Nous trouvons que davantage d’investissements spe´cifiques relationnels conduisent a` prendre en compte le don caritatif en tant qu’acteur e´conomique. En outre, nous trouvons que le conjoint au revenu le plus e´leve´ de´tient le plus de pouvoir de´cisionnel quand il s’agit de faire des dons de charite´. Les couples qui prennent les de´cisions se´pare´ment sont les donateurs les plus modestes. Lorsque des dons structurels importants sont envisage´s, les me´nages dans lesquels l’homme prend les de´cisions sont les donateurs les plus ge´ne´reux. Une confession religieuse conservatrice peut venir expliquer cette conduite Zusammenfassung Wir untersuchen Gru¨nde und Folgen der Verwaltung der Haushaltsfinanzen speziell bezogen auf das Spenden fu¨ r wohlta¨tige Zwecke. Wir testen Hypothesen an Paaren im Projekt Giving in the Netherlands Panel Study (n = 1,101). Wir finden, dass Paare bei beziehungsspezifischeren Investitionen eine Spendenentscheidung als eine o¨konomische Einheit treffen. Außerdem entdecken wir, dass der Partner mit dem ho¨chsten relativen Bildungsniveau die gro¨ßere Entscheidungsbefugnis u¨ber wohlta¨tiges Spenden hat. Paare, wo Partner separat entscheiden, spenden am wenigsten. Haushalte, in denen der ma¨nnliche Partner entscheidet, sind die gro¨ßten Spender bei gro¨ßeren und strukturelleren Spenden. Dies kann mit deren Zugeho¨rigkeit zu konservativeren Glaubensgemeinschaften erkla¨rt werden. Resumen Hemos estudiado las causas y las consecuencias de la administracio´n econo´mica de los hogares en el caso especı´fico de las donaciones caritativas. Probamos diversas hipo´tesis con parejas dentro del Estudio del Panel de las Donaciones en los Paı´ses Bajos (n = 1,101). El resultado es que las inversiones especı´ficas de relacio´n llevan a decidir sobre las donaciones caritativas como un actor econo´mico. Asimismo, hemos descubierto que el co´nyuge con ma´s recursos educativos tiene ma´s poder de decisio´n sobre las donaciones caritativas. Las parejas que deciden por separado son donantes de menor envergadura, mientras que los hogares en los que decide el co´nyuge masculino son donantes de ma´s envergadura, solo cuando se tienen en cuenta ma´s y mayores donativos estructurales. Esto puede explicarse por su cara´cter religioso ma´s conservador.

Autonomy as empowerment, or how gendered power manifests itself in contemporary Russian families

What constitutes power in the household, and how much power do contemporary Russian women have vis-à-vis their husbands? Research on intrahousehold gendered power has typically focused on three contexts: employment and relative earnings, the division of household labor, and patterns of money management in the family. Here we focus on intrahousehold power as it pertains to access to household money, asking whether wives share equal control and decision-making power over family money with their husbands.Accepted manuscript2022-11-0

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Assets, Commitment, Divorce, Gender, Marital satisfaction,