Women, Work, and Culture

By Raquel Fernández. 2007

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This paper discusses some recent advances in the area of culture and economics and examines the effect of culture on a key economic outcome: female labor supply. To separate the effect of market variables and institutions from culture, I use an epidemiological approach, studying second-generation American women. I use both female LFP and attitudes in the women's country of ancestry as cultural proxies and show that both cultural proxies have quantitatively significant effects on women's work outcomes. The paper concludes with some suggestions for future empirical and theoretical research topics in this area.

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Beyond the Glass Ceiling: Does Gender Matter? (2012, background): “Previous studies document effects of culture on labor force participation and fertility (Fernandez, 2007a; Fernandez, 2007b), economic exchange (Guiso, Sapienza Zingales, 2009) and per capita growth of regions (Tabellini, 2008).”
Understanding Cultural Persistence and Change (2017, unknown): “See for example Fernandez and Fogli (2009), Fogli and Veldkamp (2011), Alesina et al.”
Inherited Trust and Growth (2010, background): “In the same vein, Paola Guiliano (2007), Raquel Fernandez (2007) and Fernandez and Allessandra Fogli (2009) use the beliefs of immigrants as a proxy for the beliefs of a home country.”
Culture as Learning: The Evolution of Female Labor Force Participation Over a Century (2013, unknown): “Moreover, Fernández (2007b) shows that the attitudes towards women s work in the parental country of origin has important explanatory value for second-generation American women s work behavior in the US.”
Education and gender role attitudes (2020, background): “Egalitarian views toward gender roles and work values are positively associated with female labor force participation rates (Fortin 2005, 2015; Fernandez 2007; Chen and Ge 2018; Ye and Zhao 2018).4 The preferences and beliefs regarding women’s roles in the countries of ancestry are economically and…”
The Intergenerational Transmission of Gender Role Attitudes and its Implications for Female Labor Force Participation (2013, unknown): “One paper that does provide such a test is Fernández (2007), where attitudes in the women’s country of ancestry in 1990 are shown to have an important effect on the labour supply of second-generation American women in 1970.”
Economic development, structural change, and women’s labor force participation: (2013, unknown): “In particular, many authors have shown (often using data from World Value Surveys) that gender attitudes and role perceptions are highly correlated to gender-specific employment outcomes (Fortin 2005; Fernández and Fogli 2009; Fernández 2007).”
Culture: persistence and evolution (2014, unknown): “For instance, Giuliano (2007) presents evidence that cultural heritage is important for living arrangements, Fernandez (2007) for female labor force participation, and Fernandez and Fogli (2009) for female labor force participation and fertility outcomes, all using US census data.”
International migration and the role of institutions (2008, background): “Fernandez (2007) develops an epidemiological approach that treats differences in countries of ancestry as cultural proxies which affect economic outcomes.”
Modern gender roles and agricultural history: the Neolithic inheritance (2015, unknown): “…the observed divergence can be explained by cultural beliefs, which are strongly rooted in history, about the proper role of women in society (Fernandez 2007; Fernandez and Fogli 2009; Alesina et al. 2013).1 This paper follows this line of research and proposes the hypothesis that societies…”
Institutions and Culture (2007, unknown): “Akerlof (2007), Ashraf and Galor (2007), Alesina and Giuliano (2007), Greif (2006), Giuliano (2007), Guiso, Sapienza, and Zingales (2006), Fernandez (2007b), and Weil (2005) illustrate different applications of this new line of research and provide additional references.”
Gender Culture and Gender Gap in Employment (2011, methodology): “Similarly to previous contributions (see Fernandez, 2007a) we use the answers of citizens to specific questions of the 2000 World Value Survey (Ingelhart et al. 2000).7 In particular, we consider how in each province Italians reply to the following questions: (i) Being a housewife is just as…”
Mothers, Peers, and Gender-Role Identity (2018, background): “Fernández (2007) and Fernández and Fogli (2009) use the lagged values of the outcome variables in a woman’s country of ancestry and a crosssection of second-generation immigrants to identify the impact of culture on women’s work and fertility.”
Civic Capital as the Missing Link (2010, methodology): “This approach, known sometimes as the epidemiological approach (Fernandez, 2007), has been successfully used in the recent emerging literature on culture and economics to identify the effect of other cultural norms on economic outcomes e.g. by Carroll et. al (1999), GSZ (2004), Giuliano (2007),…”
Total work and gender: facts and possible explanations (2012, unknown): “6–8 (see Fernández 2007).”
The Math Gender Gap: The Role of Culture (2014, unknown): “Second, as Fernández and Fogli (2009) point out, "one could”
Fertility and the Plough (2011, unknown): “Also see Fortin (2005) and Fernandez (2007).”