A tale of two decades: Relative intra-family earning capacity and changes in family welfare over time

Julie Hotchkiss, Robert Moore, Fernando Rios-Avila () and Melissa R. Trussell
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Melissa R. Trussell: School of Business and Public Management, College of Coastal Georgia

Review of Economics of the Household, 2017, vol. 15, issue 3, No 1, 707-737

Abstract: Abstract The purpose of this paper is to assess the impact of economic changes in the 1990s and 2000s on the welfare of married households, taking into account the relative earnings structure of husband and wife. Modeling the household members’ joint labor supply, we find that families in which the wife is the higher wage earner experienced as much welfare gain in the 1990s and significantly higher welfare gains in the 2000s as families in which the husband is the higher wage earner.

Keywords: Family welfare; Microsimulation; Joint labor supply; Collective family utility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D19 I30 J22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/s11150-016-9354-9

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