Culture as Learning: The Evolution of Female Labor Force Participation Over a Century

By Raquel Fernández. 2013

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Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies

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It’s Raining Men! Hallelujah? The Long-Run Consequences of Male-Biased Sex Ratios (2019, background): “Cultural norms are inherently sticky because they are generally transmitted from parents to children (Fernández 2013, Fernández et al. 2014, Bisin and Verdier 2001, Doepke and Zilibotti 2008).”
Mothers, Peers, and Gender-Role Identity (2018, background): “Other papers have emphasized the influence of own mother and the social context for changing women’s beliefs about the effect of maternal employment on children (Fogli and Veldkamp, 2011), as well as changes in women’s own sense of self (Fernández, 2013).”
Women, Work, and the Economy:Macroeconomic Gains from Gender Equity (2013, background): “Analyzing the evolving labor force participation of married U.S. women over the past century, Fernandez (2013) argues that a substantial part of this social transformation can be explained by improved information diffusion.”
Culture and Institutions (2015, background): “This last point has been more formally developed by Fernandez (2013) and Fogli and Veldkamp (2011), who show how women learn about the long-run payoffs from working by observing nearby employed women.”
Gender Gaps and the Rise of the Service Economy (2017, background): “See finally Fernandez (2011, 2013) and references therein for theory and evidence on cultural factors.”
Labor Force Participation: Recent Developments and Future Prospects (2014, background): “Some examples are Aaronson and others (2014b); Clogg (1982); Easterlin (1961); Euwals, Knoef, and Daniel van Vuuren (2011); Fernandez (2013); Goldin (2006); Lee (2014); and Vere (2007).”
Who Wears the Pants? Gender Identity Norms and Intrahousehold Financial Decision‐Making (2017, positive): “To illustrate, married women’s labor force participation has surged from 2 percent to 73 percent over the past century (Fernández, 2013).”
Gender Role Attitudes and Women's Labor Market Participation: Opting-Out, AIDS and the President Appeal of Housewifery (2015, background): “67Column (9) of Table 3 and column (1) presents the estimates of the male trends with only life-cycle and cohort controls. as argued by others (Fernandez, 2007).”
Culture: persistence and evolution (2014, neutral): “See, however, Fogli and Veldkamp (2011) and Fernandez (2013) formodels of beliefs formation inwhich people update their views about the implications for children’s welfare of women working outside the home on the basis of the experience of previous generations.”
Sorting through Affirmative Action: Three Field Experiments in Colombia (2017, background): “…cultural norms toward female employment, the availability of childcare, and support at home can play an important role in explaining female labor market participation (Coen-Pirani et al. 2010; Barone and Mocetti 2011; Fogli and Veldkamp 2011; Fernández 2013; Bauernschuster and Schlotter 2015).”
Children and the Remaining Gender Gaps in the Labor Market (2020, positive): “Finally, as discussed in the previous section, stigma costs associated with a working mother have also declined throughout much of the 20th century (Fernandez, 2013), thereby alleviating the identity or psychic costs of being a working mother.”
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.”
Consumption and labor supply with partial insurance: An analytical framework (2014, neutral): “var t ( ∆ log ĥ ) = vχt + ( 1− γ σ + γ )2 vωt + 1 σ2 (vηt + vθt + vθ,t−1) + 2vμh (31) cov t ( ∆ log ŵ,∆ log ĥ ) = 1− γ σ + γ vωt + 1 σ (vηt + vθt + vθ,t−1)− 2vμh (32)”