You may have seen the news that a certain subset of financially successful men on Manhattan’s Upper East Side are now paying wife bonuses. On the one hand, the idea that powerful men would be offering financial incentives to their stay-at-home spouses for successfully managing the household budget or getting the kids into private school sounds insanely sexist, a new low in a long history of attempts by men to confine women to a life of marital servitude. But assuming this thing is even really a thing, there’s another important concern here, which is whether the bonuses will actually elicit the desired behavior and ... (full story)