Social Norms or Income Taxation - What Drives Couple's Labor Supply? Experimental Evidence

Melanie Schröder (), Norma Schmitt, Britta Mantei and Claudia Brünn
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Norma Burow

VfS Annual Conference 2014 (Hamburg): Evidence-based Economic Policy from Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association

Abstract: We investigate the determinants of couples labor supply within an experimental setting. On the one hand, we are interested in the e ect of taxes on couples labor supply, but on the other hand we focus on factors beyond purely economic incentives: the role of the social norm of a male breadwinner. 58 established cohabiting heterosexual and married couples (116 participants) perform under a piece rate payment on real e ort tasks (i.e. solving mazes) within a given time and with work e ort (i.e. number of solved mazes) serving as our proxy for labor supply. We demonstrate that gender identity and (dis)satisfaction with income opportunities dominated the e ects of taxation within a couple context.

JEL-codes: C93 D13 J16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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