Property rights to married women's earnings: A topic in Jewish law

Gideon Hollander; Nava Kahana; Tikva Lecker

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Property rights to married women's earnings: A topic in Jewish law

Gideon Hollander, Nava Kahana, Tikva Lecker

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The paper examines a passage in the Talmud regarding the attitude of Jewish Law toward the earnings of a married women. Considering a wife and her husband as two consumers who have preferences over income and "good feelings," it analyzes a controversy in the Gemara over the distribution of the wife's earnings. Using economic tools the paper shows that a rule enabling the wife to trade her earnings only in terms of "all or nothing" actually imposes a Pareto-optimal allocation within the family, one that is unlikely to resuh from a negotiated agreement.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	57-67
Number of pages	11
Journal	Contemporary Jewry
Volume	20
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02967959
State	Published - 1999

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