Intra-couple income distribution and subjective well-being: the moderating effect of gender norms
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Keywords
intra-couple income distribution; life satisfaction; gender norms; relative income;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being
- D10 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - General
- J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EUR-2017-06-11 (Microeconomic European Issues)
- NEP-GEN-2017-06-11 (Gender)
- NEP-HAP-2017-06-11 (Economics of Happiness)
- NEP-HME-2017-06-11 (Heterodox Microeconomics)
- NEP-LAB-2017-06-11 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-LTV-2017-06-11 (Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty)
- NEP-SOC-2017-06-11 (Social Norms and Social Capital)
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