The Spanish Sharing Rule

In this paper we estimate the intrahousehold distribution of household’s private expenditures between men and women (the sharing rule) in two types of Spanish households: those in which the woman works and those in which the woman does not work. The results for working women are parallel to those obtained for other countries which indicate a proportionally higher transfer from the woman to the man than from the man to the woman, such that the proportion of the woman’s share decreases both with the woman’s wage and with the man’s wage. However, in households where the woman does not work, we observe a slight increase in the proportion of the woman’s share when the man’s wage increases.