Gender Identity and Relative Income within Households

By Marianne Bertrand, Emir Kamenica, Jessica Pan. 2013

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Subfields: Demography, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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Household Matters: Revisiting the Returns to Capital among Female Microentrepreneurs (2019, background): “An important auxiliary finding, which was first established by de Mel et al. (2008) in Sri Lanka and has been replicated in several other settings, is that male but not female-operated enterprises benefit from access to cash grants (see Table 1; Blattman et al.”
Social Norms as a Barrier to Women’s Employment in Developing Countries (2020, background): “Bertrand et al. (2015), analyzing US data, ﬁnd that the divorce rate is higher among women whose earnings potential is higher than their partner’s.”
The Ties That Double Bind: Social Roles and Women's Underrepresentation in Politics (2018, neutral): “In addition, women may feel the need to curtail displays of their career ambition (Bursztyn, Fujiwara, and Pallais 2017), and avoid careers that require it (Bertrand, Kamenica, and Pan 2015) in order to remain married.”
It’s Raining Men! Hallelujah? The Long-Run Consequences of Male-Biased Sex Ratios (2019, background): “Bertrand et al. (2013) find that households in which women earn more than men are less likely to form and, once formed, are more likely to end in divorce.”
The Effects of Social Movements: Evidence from #MeToo (2020, neutral): “It is well established that gender norms have strong effects on behavior (e.g., Alesina et al., 2013; Bertrand et al., 2015; Charles et al., 2For example, RAINN, the largest US-based anti-sexual violence organization, spends 21% of its budget on educating the public (RAINN, 2017).”
When Time Binds: Substitutes for Household Production, Returns to Working Long Hours, and the Skilled Gender Wage Gap (2019, background): “…that such social norms cannot be the only (or primary) explanation for gender differences in work hours among the compliers, it is possible that they are a binding constraint for other segments of the population (Akerlof and Kranton 2000; Bertrand, Kamenica, and Pan 2015; Bertrand et al. 2016).”
Children and Gender Inequality: Evidence from Denmark (2019, background): “The analysis is also related to recent work on the importance of gender identity norms for labor market outcomes (Bertrand 2011; Bertrand, Pan, and Kamenica 2013).”