Economic incentives, home production and gender identity norms

Arbeitspapier

We infer the role of gender identity norms from the reallocation of childcare across parents, following changes in their relative wages. By exploiting variation from a Swedish tax reform, we estimate the elasticity of substitution in parental childcare for the whole population and for demographic groups potentially adhering to dfferently binding norms. We find that immigrant, married and male breadwinner couples, as well as couples with a male first-born, react more strongly to tax changes that induce a more traditional allocation of spouses' time, while the respective counterpart couples react more strongly to tax changes that induce a more egalitarian division of labor.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Working Paper ; No. 2019:11

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Household Production and Intrahousehold Allocation ; Personal Income and Other Nonbusiness Taxes and Subsidies; includes inheritance and gift taxes ; Time Allocation and Labor Supply
• Subject: Home production ; taxes ; gender identity ; gender gaps

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Ichino, Andrea ; Olsson, Martin ; Petrongolo, Barbara ; Skogmann Thoursie, Peter
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (IFAU)
• (where): Uppsala
• (when): 2019

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/201475
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