women emerge endogenously from intra-household bargaining. In this paper I explore the optimal tax implications of their … welfare of married women can be improved by lowering taxes for single women. Moreover, if single men earn more than single … women, the welfare of married women can alternatively be improved by a gender-neutral tax scheme which taxes singles at a …

We show that in the US, the UK, Italy and Sweden women whose first child is a boy are less likely to work in a typical … week and work fewer hours than women with first-born girls. The puzzle is why women in these countries react in this way to … from the literature on developing countries, we show that after a first-born boy the probability that women have more …

period 1968-1991. We find that the effects of changes in the wage structure on women's wages have varied over time and have … had partly counteracting effects. Changes in industry wage differentials have systematically worked against women, while … wage inequality was dramatic. In 1981, however, the wage compression effect accounted only for a minor proportion of women …