obtained from the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys. It assesses total inequality and its within-household component for two … and break it down into betweenhousehold and within-household components. Overall inequality tends to be higher in … than half of the total inequality. Intra-household inequality is an issue in countries even when, on average, there is …

over four decades of global data (n =2.85 million couple units, from 45 countries in the LIS repository) we show that intra-household … earnings inequality within a household is systemic, prevalent across disparate societies, and across the entire earnings … distribution. Our analysis shows why accounting for intra-household gender inequality is crucial to ameliorating the pandemic …