aalto1 untyped-item.component.html
Gender Identity, Coworking Spouses, and Relative Income within Households†
Loading...
Access rights
openAccess
acceptedVersion
URL
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä
This publication is imported from Aalto University research portal.
View publication in the Research portal (opens in new window)
View/Open full text file from the Research portal (opens in new window)
View publication in the Research portal (opens in new window)
View/Open full text file from the Research portal (opens in new window)
Unless otherwise stated, all rights belong to the author. You may download, display and print this publication for Your own personal use. Commercial use is prohibited.
Authors
Date
Department
Major/Subject
Mcode
Degree programme
Language
en
Pages
27
Series
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Volume 13, issue 4, pp. 258-284
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.
Description
Funding Information: *Zinovyeva: Department of Economics, University of Warwick, and Department of Economics, Aalto University (email: natalia.zinovyeva@warwick.ac.uk); Tverdostup: Department of Public Finance, University of Innsbruck, and School of Economics and Business Administration, University of Tartu (email: maryna.tverdostup@uibk. ac.at). Alexandre Mas was coeditor for this article. We would like to thank Daron Acemoglu, Joshua Angrist, David Autor, Manuel Bagues, Clare Balboni, Pamela Campa, Daniel Deming, Amy Finkelstein, Emily Nix, Eric Plug, Debraj Ray, Matti Sarvimäki, Sarah Smith, Marko Terviö, Mikhail Zinovyev, and three anonymous referees, as well as participants of presentations at Clark University, USC Marshall, MIT, University of Essex, University of Bristol, University of Warwick, University of Innsbruck, SITE, VATT, Tinbergen Institute, IZA World Labor conference, and Nordic Summer Institute in Uppsala for their useful comments and suggestions. We acknowledge financial support from the Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation, HSE Foundation, Dora Plus 1.2 Grant, and Archimedes Foundation. Some results in this paper were obtained from a validation analysis conducted by Census Bureau staff using the SIPP Completed Gold Standard Files (US Census Bureau 2015a) and the programs written by the authors. We are particularly grateful to Jordan C. Stanley for his assistance with this process. The programs were originally run on the SIPP Synthetic Beta (US Census Bureau 2015b) available on the Synthetic Data Server at Cornell University funded by NSF Grant SES-1042181. The validation analysis does not imply endorsement by the Census Bureau of any methods, results, opinions, or views presented in this paper. Publisher Copyright: © 2021. All Rights Reserved.
Keywords
Other note
Citation
Zinovyeva, N & Tverdostup, M 2021, 'Gender Identity, Coworking Spouses, and Relative Income within Households†', American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 258-284. https://doi.org/10.1257/app.20180542