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Gender identity and relative income within households : evidence from Sweden

Hederos, Karin; Stenberg, Anders - 2015

Bertrand et al. (2015) show that among married couples in the US, the distribution of the share of the household income earned by the wife exhibits a sharp drop just to the right of .50. They argue that this drop is consistent with a social norm prescribing that a man should earn more than his...

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Gender identity, co-working spouses and relative income within households

Zinovyeva, Natalia; Tverdostup, Maryna - 2018

Bertrand, Kamenica and Pan (2015) document that in the U.S. there is a sharp discontinuity to the right of 1/2 in the distribution of households according to the share of income earned by the wife, which they attribute to the existence of a gender identity norm postulating that a wife should...

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Is there a male breadwinner norm? : the hazards of inferring preferences from marriage market outcomes

Binder, Ariel J.; Lam, David - 2018

Spousal characteristics such as age, height, and earnings are often used in social science research to infer social preferences. For example, a "male taller" norm has been inferred from the fact that fewer wives are taller than their husbands than would occur with random matching. The large...

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What if she earns more? : gender norms, income inequality, and the division of housework

Magda, Iga; Cukrowska-Torzewska, Ewa; Palczyńska, Marta - 2023

Using data from "Generation and Gender Survey" for Poland, we study the relationship between women's relative income within the household, as measured by the female share of total household income, and women's involvement in housework. We find that households in which the woman contributes more...

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Gender Identity and Relative Income within Households

Bertrand, Marianne - 2013

particular, an aversion to the wife earning more than the husband – impacts marriage formation, the wife's labor force … participation, the wife's income conditional on working, satisfaction with the marriage, divorce, and the division of home … that a couple is less willing to match if her income exceeds his. Within marriage markets, when a randomly chosen woman …

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Gender Identity and Relative Income within Households : Evidence from Sweden

Hederos Eriksson, Karin - 2015

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Is There a Male Breadwinner Norm? The Hazards of Inferring Preferences from Marriage Market Outcomes

Binder, Ariel J. - 2018

Building on standard marital matching models, we show that a variety of underlying social preferences about a given trait all generate positive assortative matching on that trait, and hence the same distribution of spousal trait differences in equilibrium. Applying this result to U.S. Census and...

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Gender identity and relative income within households : evidence from Sweden

Hederos, Karin; Stenberg, Anders - In: The Scandinavian journal of economics 124 (2022) 3, pp. 744-772

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Gender identity and relative income within households : evidence from Sweden

Hederos, Karin; Stenberg, Anders - 2019

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Is there a male breadwinner norm? : the hazards of inferring preferences from marriage market outcomes

Binder, Ariel J.; Lam, David - 2018

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