Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/284776 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Citation: 
[Journal:] Journal of Applied Econometrics [ISSN:] 1099-1255 [Volume:] 36 [Issue:] 7 [Year:] 2021 [Pages:] 1065-1073
Publisher: 
Wiley, Hoboken, NJ
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 United States 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
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Article
Document Version: 
Published Version

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