TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Kühnle, Daniel
AU  - Oberfichtner, Michael
AU  - Ostermann, Kerstin
        TI  - Revisiting Gender Identity and Relative Income within Households: A Cautionary Tale on the Potential Pitfalls of Density Estimators
        PY  - 2021/Apr/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 14293
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp14293
        AB  - We show that Bertrand et al.'s (QJE 2015) finding of a sharp drop in the relative income distribution within married couples at the point where wives start to earn more than their husbands is unstable across different estimation procedures and varies across contexts. We apply the estimators by McCrary (JoE, 2008, McC) and Cattaneo et al. (JASA, 2020, CJM) to administrative data from the US and Germany and compare their performance in a simulation. Large bins cause McC to substantially overreject the null hypothesis, and mass points close to the potential discontinuity affect McC more than CJM.
        KW  - US
KW  - density estimation
KW  - relative income distribution
KW  - gender norms
KW  - Germany
KW  - replication
        ER  -