We examine causes and consequences of relative income within households. We establish that gender identity - in … production. The distribution of the share of household income earned by the wife exhibits a sharp cliff at 0.5, which suggests … their marriage and are more likely to divorce. Finally, based on time use surveys, the gender gap in non-market work is …

This paper provides new evidence on how household labor supply responds to fatal and severe non-fatal health shocks in … the short- and medium-run. To identify the causal effects of these shock realizations, we leverage administrative data on … families' health and labor market outcomes, and construct counterfactuals to affected households by using households that …

household work. These gender inequalities are accompanied by weaker political participation among women. While the historical …This paper explores how historical gender roles become entrenched as norms over the long run. In the historical United … States, gender roles on the frontier looked starkly different from those in settled areas. Male-biased sex ratios led to …

economic rights, as has been posited in the literature. The results underscore the importance of intra-household responses to … gender reforms, which have the potential to counteract legal gains in women's freedoms, and help explain why potential …

that motivated the study. As a middle ground, we construct household-based measures of labor supply by within-household … aggregating answers to the usual weeks and hours worked questionnaire items. Household (H) measures are substantially different …

The purpose of this paper is to study the joint determination of gender differentials in labor market outcomes and in … the household division of labor. Specifically, we explore the hypothesis that incentive problems in the labor market … amplify differences in earnings due to gender differentials in home hours. In turn, earnings differentials reinforce the …

the household …