for example women tend to spend income differently to men and it is also now almost conventional wisdom that children do better when their mothers control a larger share of household resources even if much of this evidence comes from development economics lundberg and poliak supporting women s paid work bargaining models would say would provide them more discretion over where and how family resources are spent given that young women s levels of educational attainment now match or outpace men s in most oecd countries and that increasingly men and women partner with someone with a similar socioeconomic status losses may be substantial if women stay at home