Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/306774 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2024:10
Publisher: 
Lund University, School of Economics and Management, Department of Economics, Lund
Abstract: 
I perform a narrow and wide replication of the labor force participation analyses in Bertand, Pan, and Kamenica (2015), which finds a negative relationship between realized and predicted female breadwinning and wives' labor force participation. Their results replicate in a narrow sense, even when samples from the same data sources cannot be perfectly reproduced. In the broader replication, I test whether the results are robust to two standard adjustments from labor economics: using hourly wages rather than annual earnings to estimate potential relative income, and using predicted rather than observed earnings or wages for husbands just as for wives. Both adjustments decrease the magnitude of the estimated negative relationship substantially. When combined, they yield a positive coefficient in a cross-sectional analysis, and a precise null when couple fixed effects are incorporated in a longitudinal analysis. This replication casts doubt on the conclusion that wives leave the labor force when they become likely to outearn their husbands.
Subjects: 
Gender norms
female labor force participation
breadwinners
JEL: 
J16
J22
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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