Gender Identity, Coworking Spouses, and Relative Income within Households

Natalia Zinovyeva and Maryna Tverdostup

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2021, vol. 13, issue 4, 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.

JEL-codes: D12 J12 J16 J22 J31 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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