TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Lippmann, Quentin
AU  - Georgieff, Alexandre
AU  - Senik, Claudia
        TI  - Undoing Gender with Institutions: Lessons from the German Division and Reunification
        PY  - 2019/Mar/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 12212
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp12212
        AB  - Using the 41-year division of Germany as a natural experiment, we show that the GDR's gender-equal institutions created a culture that has undone the male breadwinner norm and its consequences. Since reunification, East Germany still differs from West Germany not only by a higher female contribution to household income, but also because East German women can earn more than their husbands without having to increase their number of housework hours, put their marriage at risk or withdraw from the labor market. By contrast, the norm of higher male income, and its consequences, are still prevalent in West Germany.
        KW  - divorce
KW  - housework
KW  - family
KW  - German division
KW  - institutions
KW  - culture
KW  - gender norms
KW  - labor market
        ER  -