Mothers and Sons: Preference Formation and Female Labor Force Dynamics

Fernández, Raquel; Fogli, Alessandra; Olivetti, Claudia

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“…Apart from 'nature' factors determining skills and reproductive ability that are shared between the twins, there is good reason to think that preferences for family and labor market participation are shaped by one's parents. A recent study that confirms this is Fernandez, Fogli, and Olivetti (2004) who credibly argue that men are more likely to marry a partner who participates in the labor market if their own mothers worked. There is also a large literature within psychology and sociology that investigates parental influence on children's attitudes towards family formation; Axinn and Thornton (1996) for example investigate the effects of parents' marital dissolution on children's attitudes towards premarital sex, cohabitation, marriage, and childbearing.…”

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The family gap in wages: What wombmates reveal

Simonsen¹,

Skipper²

2012

Labour Economics

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Section: Empirical Framework: Exploiting Twinsmentioning

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The family gap in wages: What wombmates reveal

Simonsen¹,

Skipper²

2012

Labour Economics

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“…67 The preponderance of research in this area has focused on correlations across generations. The exception to this, however, is work by Fernandez, Fogli, and Olivetti (2004), who argue that the behavior of the mother has a causal influence on the preferences of the son in terms of the marriage market. Using geographic variation in the importance of World War II as a shock to women's labor force participation, they find that if a mother works this has a positive causal effect on the probability that the son's wife works.…”

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Recent Developments in Intergenerational Mobility

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Devereux

2011

Handbook of Labor Economics

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“…An argument of this kind is presented by Fernández, Fogli, and Olivetti (2004), who argue that one factor that held back female em-ployment is husbands' prejudice against working wives. The extent of this prejudice, in turn, depends on whether a husband's own mother was working.…”

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The Baby Boom and World War II: A Macroeconomic Analysis

Doepke¹,

Hazan

Maoz

2015

Review of Economic Studies

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We argue that one major cause of the U.S. postwar baby boom was the increased demand for female labor during World War II. We develop a quantitative dynamic general equilibrium model with endogenous fertility and female labor-force participation decisions. We use the model to assess the long-term implications of a one-time demand shock for female labor, such as the one experienced by American women during wartime mobilization. For the war generation, the shock leads to a persistent increase in female labor supply due to the accumulation of work experience. In contrast, younger women who turn adult after the war face increased labor-market competition, which impels them to exit the labor market and start having children earlier. In our calibrated model, this general-equilibrium effect generates a substantial baby boom followed by a baby bust, as well as patterns for agespecific labor-force participation and fertility rates that are consistent with U.S data.

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Mothers and Sons: Preference Formation and Female Labor Force Dynamics

Cited by 873 publications

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The family gap in wages: What wombmates reveal

The family gap in wages: What wombmates reveal

Recent Developments in Intergenerational Mobility

The Baby Boom and World War II: A Macroeconomic Analysis

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