Gender-specific labour market shocks and household bargaining power.
利用机器学习分析单身男女消费数据构建商品性别指数，发现工业机器人采用（恶化男性相对经济地位）使家庭消费转向女性偏好商品，而水力压裂扩张（增加低技能男性需求）则呈现相反趋势。
Abstract Using machine learning and product-level data on single men’s and single women’s consumption patterns, we develop an index that quantifies the „gendered‟ nature of consumer goods. We use the index to investigate how gender-specific labour market shocks influence spending patterns within heterosexual households. Our findings reveal that industrial robot adoption, which worsened men’s relative economic position, shifted household consumption toward products predominantly purchased by single women. In contrast, the expansion of fracking, which boosted demand for young and less skilled men, yields suggestive but less robust evidence of increased spending on goods favoured by single men. Although neither shock significantly altered total spending on children’s products, robot exposure led to a reallocation of spending toward goods more commonly purchased for daughters than for sons.