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Is There a Male-Breadwinner Norm? The Hazards of Inferring Preferences from Marriage Market Outcomes

This paper argues that distributions of spousal earnings gaps provide no identifying information for the male breadwinner norm, nor such a norm’s consequences for gender inequality. First, we show that simple marital matching models—without norm-related assumptions—closely replicate U.S. distributio...

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Autores principales: Binder, Ariel J., Lam, David
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9855108/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36688135
http://dx.doi.org/10.3368/jhr.58.2.0320-10803r1