Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/53310 
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Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 81.2008
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
I estimate how intra-household bargaining affects gay and lesbian couples' labor supplies, investigating their similarity to heterosexual decision-making, in a collective household framework. Data from the 2000 US Census show that couples of all types exhibit a significant response to bargaining power shifts, as measured by differences between partners in age or non-labor income. In gay, lesbian, and heterosexual cohabiting couples, a relatively young or rich partner has more bargaining power and hence supplies less labor, the opposite holding for his/her mate. Married couples value the older spouse instead, or the richer. No effects are found for same-sex roommates.
Subjects: 
Household Decision Making
Same-Sex Couples
Labor Supply
JEL: 
D1
J22
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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