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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w24907
来源ID	Working Paper 24907
	Is There a Male Breadwinner Norm? The Hazards of Inferring Preferences from Marriage Market Outcomes
	Ariel J. Binder; David Lam
发表日期	2018-08-20
出版年	2018
语种	英语
摘要	Building on standard marital matching models, we show that a variety of underlying social preferences about a given trait all generate positive assortative matching on that trait, and hence the same distribution of spousal trait differences in equilibrium. Applying this result to U.S. Census and administrative earnings data, we find that simple models of assortative matching can very closely replicate the observed distribution of spousal earnings differences, in which very few wives out-earn their husbands. We conclude that the distribution of spousal earnings differences in the U.S. provides little information about the existence and implications of a male breadwinner norm.
主题	Microeconomics ; Households and Firms ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w24907
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/582581
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Ariel J. Binder,David Lam. Is There a Male Breadwinner Norm? The Hazards of Inferring Preferences from Marriage Market Outcomes. 2018.