An emerging literature highlights the importance of empowering women. Female decision-making power is typically …

The assumption that household income is strongly and positively correlated with a household's real standard of living … provides the basis for the joint taxation of families, which has the effect of discriminating against married women as second … earners. This paper shows, in the context of a model of the household with young children present, that this assumption is not …

distribution of households according to the share of income earned by the wife, which they attribute to the existence of a gender …

(2002) to an intertemporal setting. We first develop a theoretical model to analyze the intra-household distribution of … wealth in a multi-period framework, with a focus on labor supply and marriage markets. The model allows us to derive a … setting. We show that wages are positively related to household labor supply, although cross and lagged effects show negative …

distribution of households according to the share of income earned by the wife, which they attribute to the existence of a gender …