The birth of children often shifts the power balance within a family. If family decisions are made according to the … spouses' welfare function, this shift in power may lead to a time consistency problem. The allocation of resources after the …, families try to mitigate the ex-ante undesired shift in the power balance. This bias in fertility choices provides scope for …

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. …