We examine causes and consequences of relative income within households. We establish that gender identity - in … becomes more likely to earn more than a randomly chosen man, marriage rates decline. Within couples, if the wife's potential … earns less than her potential if she does work. Couples where the wife earns more than the husband are less satisfied with …

Gender-Based Taxation (GBT) satisfies Ramsey's rule of optimality because it taxes at a lower rate the more elastic … society can resolve its distributional concerns efficiently with gender-specific lump sum transfers, GBT with higher marginal … balanced allocation of labor market outcomes across spouses and a smaller gender gap in labor supply elasticities …

believe that women perform more total work. The facts do not arise from gender differences in the price of time (as measured … using U.S. and German data show that they do not arise from differences in marital bargaining, as gender equality is not … associated with marital status; nor do they stem from family norms, since most of the variance in the gender total work …

to higher inflation, particularly when uncertainty couples with policies redirecting time use towards housework (e … Time Use Survey and the Bureau of Labor Statistics, we document that heightened uncertainty increases housework and reduces … show that substitution between market and housework provides self-insurance to households, weakening precautionary savings …

likely to arrive only if both parents desire one, and there are many couples who disagree on having babies. We then build a …