We examine causes and consequences of relative income within households. We establish that gender identity - in … becomes more likely to earn more than a randomly chosen man, marriage rates decline. Within couples, if the wife's potential … earns less than her potential if she does work. Couples where the wife earns more than the husband are less satisfied with …

believe that women perform more total work. The facts do not arise from gender differences in the price of time (as measured … using U.S. and German data show that they do not arise from differences in marital bargaining, as gender equality is not … associated with marital status; nor do they stem from family norms, since most of the variance in the gender total work …

Gender-Based Taxation (GBT) satisfies Ramsey's rule of optimality because it taxes at a lower rate the more elastic … society can resolve its distributional concerns efficiently with gender-specific lump sum transfers, GBT with higher marginal … balanced allocation of labor market outcomes across spouses and a smaller gender gap in labor supply elasticities …

Using comparable data for 24 countries since the 1970s, we document gender convergence in schooling, employment and … changes, family policies and gender equality …