Mothers and Sons: Preference Formation and Female Labor Force Dynamics

By Raquel Fernández, A. Fogli, Claudia Olivetti. 2004

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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Changes in women's hours of market work: The role of returns to experience (2006, neutral): “On this topic, Fernández et al. (2004) examine the role of preferences formation within the family.”
EVOLUTION OF GENDER DIFFERENCES IN POST-SECONDARY HUMAN CAPITAL INVESTMENTS: COLLEGE MAJORS (2014, neutral): “…of oral contraceptive (Goldin and Katz 2002; Baily 2006), and changes in cultural norms with regardto women’s participation in the labor force (Fernandez, Fogli, and Olivetti 2004).4 Our estimates are in line with these findings, and we show thatthese types of mechanisms can also account for…”
Economic development, structural change, and women’s labor force participation: (2013, positive): “In particular, the experience of war-time labor shortages is said to have permanently increased women’s employment opportunities in warring nations, including the USA, Britain, France, etc. (Goldin 1991; Fernández et al. 2004).”
Long Term Persistence (2008, neutral): “5 There is also a growing literature on cultural persistence over shorter periods of time; see Algan and Cahuc (2010), Giuliano (2007), Guiso, Sapienza and Zingales (2006), Fernandez et al. (2004), Fisman and Miguel (2007), and Tabellini (2010).”
Assessing the Engines of Liberation: Home Appliances and Female Labor Force Participation (2008, background): “(2)Goldin (1995), in an historical overview of female labor market participation in the United States, shows a rise from 3.1 to around 50 percent of the labor force between 1900 and 1980. As reported by Killingsworth and Heckman (1987), most of this increase in female labor force participation in th”
The Allocation of Talent and U.S. Economic Growth (2019, neutral): “4See Fernández, Fogli, and Olivetti (2004) and Fernández (2013) on the role of cultural forces, Greenwood, Seshadri, and Yorukoglu (2005) on the role of home durables, and Goldin and Katz (2002) on the role of birth control in explaining changes in female labor supply over time.”
Political regimes and the family: how sex-role attitudes continue to differ in reunified Germany (2011, background): “For example, whether a man’s wife works is positively associated with whether his mother worked ( Fernandez et al. 2004; Kawaguchi and Miyazaki 2009), which could be explained by the idea that men with working mothers have more egalitarian views of sex roles.”