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Gender identity and relative income within households : evidence from Sweden
Eriksson, Karin Hederos; Stenberg, Anders - 2015
Bertrand et al. (2015) show that among married couples in the US, the distribution of the share of the household income earned by the wife exhibits a sharp drop just to the right of .50. They argue that this drop is consistent with a social norm prescribing that a man should earn more than his...
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Is there a male breadwinner norm? : the hazards of inferring preferences from marriage market outcomes
Binder, Ariel J.; Lam, David - 2018
Spousal characteristics such as age, height, and earnings are often used in social science research to infer social preferences. For example, a "male taller" norm has been inferred from the fact that fewer wives are taller than their husbands than would occur with random matching. The large...
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Marriage payments and bargaining power of women in rural Bangladesh
Mansoor, Nazia - 2011
time of marriage continue to remain in a strong position post marriage as seen by their decision to use the contraceptive … total household marriage payment, increases from 0.1 to 0.3 the predicted probability of the mother using the contraceptive … pill increases by 8 percentage points. -- marriage market ; marriage payments ; female bargaining power ; contraceptive use …
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Daughters, savings and household finances
Tani, Massimiliano; Wen, Xin; Cheng, Zhiming - 2023
marriage market thanks to the relative under-supply of unmarried women, have lower incentives to raise their female heirs …
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Gender identity and wives' labor market outcomes in West and East Germany between 1984 and 2016
Sprengholz, Maximilian; Wieber, Anna; Holst, Elke - 2019
We exploit the natural experiment of German reunification in 1990 to investigate if the institutional regimes of the formerly socialist (rather gender-equal) East Germany and the capitalist (rather gender-traditional) West Germany shaped different gender identity prescriptions of family...
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Gender identity and wives' labor market outcomes in West and East Germany between 1984 and 2016
Sprengholz, Maximilian; Wieber, Anna; Holst, Elke - 2019
We exploit the natural experiment of German reunification in 1990 to investigate if the institutional regimes of the formerly socialist (rather gender-equal) East Germany and the capitalist (rather gender-traditional) West Germany shaped different gender identity prescriptions of family...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011998967
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What if she earns more? : gender norms, income inequality, and the division of housework
Magda, Iga; Cukrowska-Torzewska, Ewa; Palczyńska, Marta - 2023
Using data from "Generation and Gender Survey" for Poland, we study the relationship between women's relative income within the household, as measured by the female share of total household income, and women's involvement in housework. We find that households in which the woman contributes more...
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Financial implications of relationship breakdown : does marriage matter?
Fisher, Hayley; Low, Hamish - 2012
marriage does not appear to translate into economic protection. …
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Does marriage pay more than cohabitation? : selection and specialization effects on male wages in Germany
Barg, Katherin; Beblo, Miriam - 2008
- into marriage as well as into cohabitation. Supplementary analysis of intra-household time use suggests that specialization …, if any, is part of the selection process from single to cohabitation to marriage. … more attractive on the marriage market). We analyze the cohabiting and the marital wage premium in Germany using a shifting …
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Common law marriage and couple formation
Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana; Vernon, Victoria - 2014
The Current Population Survey is used to investigate effects of Common Law Marriage (CLM) on whether young US … abolished CLM over the period examined. Analysis based on Gary Becker's marriage economics helps explain why CLM affects couple …
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