This paper studies the impact of tax incentives on economic behavior within the household. We focus on an Italian tax … holding more conservative gender norms are the ones who mostly reduce their income. This suggests that tax policies can … exacerbate economic inequalities among families and depress female labor market outcomes when they interact with entrenched …

We study gender differences in the labor market reallocation of Peruvian workers in response to trade liberalization …. The empirical strategy relies on variation in import competition across local labor markets based on their industrial … composition before China entered the global market in 2001. In contrast to much of the existing literature, we find that import …

outearns her partner. This misreporting is best explained by the role of gender norms in individuals' self-portrayals and self-perception. …

We consider a non-cooperative model of the household, in which the husband and wife decide on parental leave and the … sufficiently low gender wage gap), Intermediate-gap couples (with an intermediate gender wage gap) and high-gap couples (with a … sufficiently high gender wage gap). Our model predicts that while egalitarian couples never specialize and always share home …

information structure and labor supply decisions follow the Mirrleesian tradition. However, while the household’s total …

We study whether mothers' labor supply is shaped by the gender role attitudes of their peers. Using detailed … information on a sample of UK mothers with dependent children, we find that having peers with gender-egalitarian norms leads … household, but has no sizable efficect on hours worked. Most of these effects are driven by less educated women. A new …

Models that allow for non-cooperative as well as cooperative behavior of families are estimated on data from Norway in …

gender gap, which prevails after controlling for relative earnings. Finally, in a complementary analysis we show that a …