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While most studies on wealth inequality focus on the inequality between households, this paper examines the distribution of wealth within couples. For this purpose, we make use of unique individual level micro data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). In married and cohabiting...
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This paper considers the relationship between work status and decision-making power of the head of household and his … spouse. I use household fixed effects models to address the possibility that spousal work status may be correlated with … resources yield greater bargaining power, I find that the spouse of the head of household is more likely to be involved in …
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household earnings potential is disproportionally due to one partner, and families react equally strongly to a male and a female …
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-in-differences style identification strategy and a model with household fixed effects. The results suggest that while a migrant household … greater authority for the head of household. …
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This paper shows how a shorter fecundity horizon for females (a biological constraint) leads to age and educational disparities between husbands and wives. Empirical support is based on data from a natural experiment commencing before and ending after China's 1980 one-child law. The results...
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the United States using nationally representative data from the Household Pulse Survey. We find that transgender women …
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than for men. We then show that on the household level there is no evidence of an added worker effect, independent of the …
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over time in the way that gender bias is practiced within the household. In 1995, gender bias occurred through a … independently to completing a given number of years in school. Household fixed effects analysis shows that the observed gender … biases are a within-household phenomenon rather than an artefact of differences in unobservables across households. …
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We show that parts of the unexplained wage gap in standard Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions result from the neglect of the role played by the family for individual wages. We present a simple model of dual-earner households facing a trade-off regarding whose career to promote and show analytically...
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