My Baby Takes the Morning Train: Gender Identity, Fairness, and Relative Labor Supply Within Households

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The current study argues that women's decision to leave the labor force at the point where their income exceeds their husbands' income may have less to do with gender identity norm (Bertrand et al., 2015) and more to do with what women think is a fair distribution of relative working hours within the household. Using three nationally-representative data, we show that life satisfaction is significantly lower among women whose work hours exceed their partners, holding the share of wife's income constant. Men, by contrast, are not affected by working longer or fewer hours than their wives.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 10382

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; General Welfare; Well-Being ; Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse ; Time Allocation and Labor Supply
• Subject: fairness ; gender identity ; life satisfaction ; relative income ; working hours ; labor supply

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Lepinteur, Anthony ; Flèche, Sarah ; Powdthavee, Nattavudh
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2016

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/161005
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET