Gender Norms and Network Structure: A Model of the Intrahousehold Division of Labor.
This study presents a bargaining model with endogenous gender norms. Agents are heterogeneous in their wage rates and preferences but seek to conform to the behavior of their social reference group. In contrast to the previous literature, which assumes a homogeneous social norm, agents are connected...
| Publicado en: | Feminist Economics Vol. 31; no. 3; pp. 237 - 275 |
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