Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics
Working Paper Series,
IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy
No 2019:11: Economic incentives, home production and gender identity norms
Andrea Ichino (), Martin Olsson (), Barbara Petrongolo () and Peter Skogman Thoursie ()
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Andrea Ichino: European University Institute, U. Bologna and CEPR, Postal: European University Institute, U. Bologna and CEPR
Martin Olsson: Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN, Stockholm) and IFAU, Postal: Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy, P O Box 513, SE-751 20 Uppsala, Sweden
Barbara Petrongolo: Queen Mary University London, CEP (LSE) and CEPR, Postal: Queen Mary University London, CEP (LSE) and CEPR
Peter Skogman Thoursie: Stockholm University and IFAU, Postal: Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy, P O Box 513, SE-751 20 Uppsala, Sweden
Abstract: We infer the role of gender identity norms from the reallocation of childcare across parents, following changes in their relative wages. By exploiting variation from a Swedish tax reform, we estimate the elasticity of substitution in parental childcare for the whole population and for demographic groups potentially adhering to differently binding norms. We find that immigrant, married and male breadwinner couples, as well as couples with a male first-born, react more strongly to tax changes that induce a more traditional allocation of spouses' time, while the respective counterpart couples react more strongly to tax changes that induce a more egalitarian division of labor.
Keywords: Home production; taxes; gender identity; gender gaps.
61 pages, May 29, 2019
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