Bertrand, Marianne; Kamenica, Emir; Pan, Jessica - In: The Quarterly Journal of Economics 130 (2015) 2, pp. 571-614
We examine causes and consequences of relative income within households. We show that the distribution of the share of income earned by the wife exhibits a sharp drop to the right of 1/2, where the wife’s income exceeds the husband’s income. We argue that this pattern is best explained by...