Mothers, Peers, and Gender-Role Identity

By Claudia Olivetti, Eleonora Patacchini, Yves Zenou. Journal of the European Economic Association, 2018

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We study whether a woman’s labor supply as a young adult is shaped by the work behavior of her adolescent peers’ mothers. Using detailed information on a sample of U.S. teenagers who are followed over time, we find that labor force participation of high school peers’ mothers affects adult women’s labor force participation, above and beyond the effect of their own mothers. The analysis suggests that women who were exposed to a larger number of working mothers during adolescence are less likely to feel that work interferes with family responsibilities. This perception, in turn, is important for whether they work when they have children.

Subfields: Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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• This Time It's Different: The Role of Women's Employment in a Pandemic Recession (2020, background): “23Along similar lines, Olivetti, Patacchini, and Zenou (2020), show that girls who are exposed to their peers’ working mothers during their teenage years are more likely to end up working themselves. careers has been advanced by Goldin and Katz (2011) and Erosa et al. (2017), among others.24 Given…”