Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/236324 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 14293
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We show that Bertrand et al.'s (QJE 2015) finding of a sharp drop in the relative income distribution within married couples at the point where wives start to earn more than their husbands is unstable across different estimation procedures and varies across contexts. We apply the estimators by McCrary (JoE, 2008, McC) and Cattaneo et al. (JASA, 2020, CJM) to administrative data from the US and Germany and compare their performance in a simulation. Large bins cause McC to substantially overreject the null hypothesis, and mass points close to the potential discontinuity affect McC more than CJM.
Subjects: 
gender norms
relative income distribution
density estimation
US
Germany
replication
JEL: 
C14
C18
D10
J16
Document Type: 
Working Paper

Files in This Item:
File
Size
778.67 kB





Items in EconStor are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.