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Mothers, peers, and gender-role identity

Mothers, peers, and gender-role identity
Mothers, peers, and gender-role identity

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.

Identity, female labour supply, role models
266-301
Olivetti, Claudia
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Patacchini, Eleonora
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Zenou, Yves
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Olivetti, Claudia
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Patacchini, Eleonora
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Zenou, Yves
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Olivetti, Claudia, Patacchini, Eleonora and Zenou, Yves (2020) Mothers, peers, and gender-role identity. Journal of the European Economic Association, 18 (1), 266-301. (doi:10.1093/jeea/jvy050).

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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.

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Accepted/In Press date: 13 August 2018
e-pub ahead of print date: 15 December 2018
Published date: February 2020
Keywords: Identity, female labour supply, role models

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Local EPrints ID: 428182
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/428182
PURE UUID: a86436aa-0a03-48b3-8be4-8a08130d6600
ORCID for Yves Zenou: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-6516-0812

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Date deposited: 13 Feb 2019 17:30
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 07:08

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Author: Claudia Olivetti
Author: Eleonora Patacchini
Author: Yves Zenou ORCID iD

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