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creators_name: Cochard, François
creators_name: Couprie, Hélène
creators_name: Hopfensitz, Astrid
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title: What if women earned more than their spouses? An experimental investigation of work-division in couples
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abstract: Female specialization on household work and male specialization on labor-market work is a widely observed phenomenon across time and countries. Gender differences regarding characteristics (preferences, productivity) and context (wage rates, social norms) are generally recognized to explain this fact. We experimentally investigate work division by true co-habiting couples participating in a newly developed specialization task. Efficiency in this task comes at the cost of inequality, giving higher earnings to the “advantaged” player. We compare behavior when men (or women) are in the advantaged position, which correspond to the traditional (or power) couple case where he (or she) earns more. We show that women do not contribute more than men to the household public good whatever the situation. This result allows us to rule-out some of the standard explanations of the work division puzzle.
date: 2017-01
date_type: published
publisher: IAST Working Paper
official_url: http://iast.fr/pub/29563
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keywords: Experiment on couples
keywords: Time allocation
keywords: Work division
language: en
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subjectsJEL: JEL_C99
subjectsJEL: JEL_D13
subjectsJEL: JEL_J16
view_date_year: 2017
full_text_status: public
monograph_type: working_paper
series: IAST Working Paper
volume: 15-26
place_of_pub: Toulouse
pages: 45
institution: Université Toulouse 1 Capitole
department: Toulouse School of Economics
book_title: IAST Working Paper
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citation:   Cochard, François <https://www.idref.fr/078384303>, Couprie, Hélène and Hopfensitz, Astrid <https://www.idref.fr/176187804>  (2017) What if women earned more than their spouses? An experimental investigation of work-division in couples.  IAST Working Paper, n. 15-26, Toulouse     
document_url: https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/21633/1/IAST_V1/wp/wp_iast_1526update.pdf