Gender Identity and Relative Income within Households: Evidence from Sweden

Karin Hederos Eriksson () and Anders Stenberg

No 9533, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: 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 wife. We repeat this analysis for Sweden, ranked as one of the world's most gender equal countries. Analyzing Swedish population register data, we do not find support for the norm that a man should earn more than his wife.

Keywords: marriage market; gender roles; gender identity; gender gap (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D10 J12 J16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 pages
Date: 2015-11
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Published - published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics , 2022, 124 (3), 744 - 772

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Journal Article: Gender identity and relative income within households: evidence from Sweden (2022)
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