Revisiting Gender Identity and Relative Income within Households: A Cautionary Tale on the Potential Pitfalls of Density Estimators
We show that Bertrand et al.'s (QJE 2015) finding of a sharp drop in the relative income distribution within married couples at the point where wives start to earn more than their husbands is unstable across different estimation procedures and varies across contexts. We apply the estimators by McCrary (JoE, 2008, McC) and Cattaneo et al. (JASA, 2020, CJM) to administrative data from the US and Germany and compare their performance in a simulation. Large bins cause McC to substantially overreject the null hypothesis, and mass points close to the potential discontinuity affect McC more than CJM.
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2021
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Authors: | Kühnle, Daniel ; Oberfichtner, Michael ; Ostermann, Kerstin |
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Bonn : Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) |
Subject: | gender norms | relative income distribution | density estimation | US | Germany | replication |
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freely available
Series: | IZA Discussion Papers ; 14293 |
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Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Type of publication (narrower categories): | Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Other identifiers: | 1759037753 [GVK] hdl:10419/236324 [Handle] RePEc:iza:izadps:dp14293 [RePEc] |
Classification: | C14 - Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods ; c18 ; D10 - Household Behavior and Family Economics. General ; J16 - Economics of Gender |
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