Data and Code for: Gender Identity, Co-Working Spouses and Relative Income Within Households

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Natalia Zinovyeva, University of Warwick; Maryna Tverdostup, University of Innsbruck

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Project Citation:

Zinovyeva, Natalia, and Tverdostup, Maryna. Data and Code for: Gender Identity, Co-Working Spouses and Relative Income Within Households. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2021. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2021-09-20. https://doi.org/10.3886/E120468V1

Project Description

Summary:

Bertrand, Kamenica and Pan (2015 QJE) 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 co-working couples, and it is associated with an increase in the relative earnings of women, rather than a decrease as predicted by the norm. We also provide evidence suggesting that co-working spouses may play an important role in explaining the discontinuity observed in the United States.

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:
      D10 Household Behavior: General
      J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
      J21 Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure

Geographic Coverage: United States, Finland

Data Type(s): program source code

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