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The Intergenerational Transmission of Gender Role Attitudes and its Implications for Female Labour Force Participation

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ID9727399
AuthorsLídia Farré (0000-0002-1263-5244, Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica and Barcelona GSE), Francis Vella (Georgetown University)
Year2013
Volume80
Issue318
Pages219-247
Publication date2013-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEconomica (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0013-0427 • E-ISSN: 1468-0335
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/ecca.12008
OpenAlexW1540494368
LanguageEN
Citations received129
References cited42

Using a sample of mother–child pairs from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979, we study the economics of cultural transmission regarding women's roles. We find that a mother's attitudes have a statistically significant effect on those of her children. Furthermore, we find a strong association between the attitudes of sons in their youth and their wives' labour supply as adults. For daughters, the association between their own attitudes and adult work outcomes is weaker and seems to operate through the educational channel. Our findings indicate that cultural transmission contributes to heterogeneity in the labour supply of women

Association (psychology) · Cultural transmission in animals · Demographic economics · Economics · Labour economics · Labour supply · Longitudinal study · National Longitudinal Surveys · Sample (material) · Time-use survey · Transmission (telecommunications) · Transmission channel · Work (physics) · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Medicine · Psychology

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