Working Married Women and the Distribution of Income
分析已婚职业女性收入对家庭总收入分配的影响，利用泰尔指数分解为三个可解释成分，并用1968-1980年美国当前人口调查数据展示各成分变化，发现妻子收入对家庭收入不平等的均等化作用日益重要。
In this paper we analyze the impact of the earnings of working married women on the distribution of total household income. Using the Theil measure of inequality, we first show how this impact can be decomposed into three easily interpretable components, one of which is the labor force participation rate of married women. Then, using data from the Current Population Survey, we present the development of these components for each year during the period 1968-1980. Our main conclusion is that the equalizing impact of wives' earnings on total household income inequality has become increasingly important.