the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews … research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap … in wealth, attempting to highlight the paths between the various facets of gender inequality. Throughout the review, much …

and men and I also differentiate according to their partnership status (marriage vs. cohabitation). My aim is to evaluate … whether intra-household adaptation mechanisms differ by gender and by partnership status. The underlying method is a …

We extend the search-matching model of the marriage market of Shimer and Smith (2000) to allow for labor supply, home … estimate how much sorting results from time use specialization or homophilic preferences. We estimate how equilibrium marriage … formation affects the wage elasticities of market and non market hours. We estimate individuals’ willingness to pay for marriage …

decide upon the allocation of an unpaid task serving as our proxy for housework. In our gender neutral lab, we find tax …-effects only on men’s labor supply but not on women’s and no gender differences in the allocation of housework. Instead, the … overcome the gender neutral lab. …

arrangement, and marital status. We find that the U.S. anti-poverty policy distorts the cohabitation/marriage decision of single …

framework that rationalizes hypergamy even in the absence of gender differences in the distribution of earnings capacity. Using … identifies gender differences in preferences that can explain the observed patterns. …