A puzzle has emerged from studies examining the wage effects of sexual orientation for women. Although lesbian and bisexual women face discrimination in the labor market, most studies of the wages of female full-time workers in same-sex couples versus those in different-sex couples find that the...

Existing literature shows that on average and across countries, men have higher levels of wealth than women. However, very little is known about the gender-specific wealth gap within couples. This paper studies this phenomenon. The particular focus of the paper is on the relationship between the...

Der Haushalt ist eine "Black Box" in Bezug auf Entscheidungsfindungsprozesse, auf individuelle Präferenzen einzelner Haushaltsmitglieder und auf die Rolle von Geschlecht und Geschlechterverhältnissen in Entscheidungsprozessen. Bislang gibt es noch keine großräumige, jedenfalls aber keine...

Der Haushalt ist eine „Black Box“ in Bezug auf Entscheidungsfindungsprozesse, auf individuelle Präferenzen einzelner Haushaltsmitglieder und auf die Rolle von Geschlecht und Geschlechterverhältnissen in Entscheidungsprozessen. Bislang gibt es noch keine großräumige, jedenfalls aber keine...

A puzzle has emerged from studies examining the wage effects of sexual orientation for women. Although lesbian and bisexual women face discrimination in the labor market, most studies of the wages of female full-time workers in same-sex couples versus those in different-sex couples find that the...

We examine differences in household specialization between same-sex and different-sex couples within and across three birth cohorts: Baby Boomers, Generation X, and Generation Y. Using three measures of household specialization, we find that same-sex couples are less likely than their...

<title>Abstract</title> In many societies, children' educational attainment is heavily dependent on their parents' education; but that result can differ by the gender of both the parents and the child. Using a Markovian approach, along with uni- and multivariate econometric techniques, this study employs the...