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 …

.g., self-employment, no migration background, inheritances, high income) that decrease the wealth gap for women increase it for …While most studies on wealth inequality focus on the inequality between households, this paper examines the … distribution of wealth within couples. For this purpose, we make use of unique individual level micro data from the German Socio …

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 …