Ask me why: Patterns of intrahousehold decision-making

• Moving beyond who decides, we use vignettes to identify why certain household members make decisions in rural Senegal. • Outcomes that appear to be related to the gender of the decision-maker are actually driven by decision-making typologies. • Households where the most informed men (women) decide produce more milk than those in which men (women) make all decisions. • Children of women who decide because they are most informed have more hemoglobin than those whose mothers make all decisions.