Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michèle - 2008
took place long before women gained the right to vote, they amounted to a voluntary renouncement of power by men. In this … paper, we investigate men's incentives for sharing power with women. In our model, women's legal rights set the marital … bargaining power of husbands and wives. We show that men face a tradeoff between the rights they want for their own wives (namely …