American Economic Journal:
Applied Economics
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Gender Identity, Coworking Spouses, and Relative Income within Households
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
vol. 13,
no. 4, October 2021
(pp. 258–84)
Abstract
Bertrand, Kamenica, and Pan (2015) document that in the United States there is a discontinuity to the right of 0.5 in the distribution of households according to the female share of total earnings, which they attribute to the existence of a gender identity norm. We provide an alternative explanation for this discontinuity. Using linked employer-employee data from Finland, we show that the discontinuity emerges as a result of equalization and convergence of earnings in coworking couples, and it is associated with an increase in the relative earnings of women, rather than a decrease as predicted by the norm.Citation
Zinovyeva, Natalia, and Maryna Tverdostup. 2021. "Gender Identity, Coworking Spouses, and Relative Income within Households." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 13 (4): 258–84. DOI: 10.1257/app.20180542Additional Materials
JEL Classification
- D12 Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
- J12 Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse
- J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
- J22 Time Allocation and Labor Supply
- J31 Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
- Z13 Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification