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Couples are Made of Four: Intergenerational Transmission of Within-household Allocations

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  • Garcia-Brazales, Javier

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There is increasing evidence in favor of non-unitary models of the household. Moreover, gender norms and values have been shown to be transmitted across generations and to affect intra-household allocations. I lever a unique opportunity to observe each spouse’s contributions to income, market, and home hours of parents and children (after forming their own household) in China and Australia to uncover a strong positive correlation between the female spouse’s relative contributions across two generations in the absence of reverse causality. This is robust to the inclusion of a rich vector of controls and provincial fixed effects. Exploiting large exogenous changes in education brought along by the Chinese 1986 Compulsory Education Law, I find that the degree of intergenerational transmission was disrupted by the reform, and that this happened heterogeneously across groups with different parental relative contributions. I further show that this was driven by a change in the attitudes towards gender norms, which suggests that transmission occurs at least partly through socialization and that policies can have a multiplier effect both within and across generations.

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  • Garcia-Brazales, Javier, 2021. "Couples are Made of Four: Intergenerational Transmission of Within-household Allocations," EconStor Preprints 246592, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics.
  • Handle: RePEc:zbw:esprep:246592
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    Keywords

    Intrahousehold Inequalities; Relative Spousal Contributions; Intergenerational Transmission; China; Australia;
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    JEL classification:

    • D10 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - General
    • I24 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Inequality
    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination

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