Maternal Gender Role Attitudes, Human Capital Investment, and Labour Supply of Sons and Daughters
Maternal Gender Role Attitudes, Human Capital Investment, and Labour Supply of Sons and Daughters
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母亲的性别角色态度、人力资本投资与子女的劳动力供给
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2014
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M. Shields
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D. Johnston;S. Schurer;M. Shields
最近的研究表明，信念、偏好和态度是经济成果代际传递的重要途径。我们有助于这方面的文献记录的重要性，性别角色的态度与1970年英国队列研究的数据。我们发现，母亲和孩子的性别角色态度，相隔25年测量，是密切相关的，同样如此的儿子和女儿。我们还发现，女儿和儿子的妻子/合作伙伴有更大的人力资本和劳动力供应，如果他们的母亲举行非传统的态度。固定效应分析表明，分娩后女性劳动力供应的影响特别大。重要的是，儿子的人力资本和劳动力供应不受影响，这表明结果不是由未观察到的异质性驱动的。所有这些研究结果表明，性别角色态度的代际传递解释了性别不平等的实质性部分。
Recent studies have shown that beliefs, preferences, and attitudes are important pathways for the intergenerational transmission of economic outcomes. We contribute to this literature by documenting the importance of gender role attitudes with data from the 1970 British Cohort Study. We find that mothers' and children's gender role attitudes, measured 25 years apart, are strongly correlated, equally so for sons and daughters. We also find that daughters and sons' wives/partners have greater human capital and labour supply if their mothers held nontraditional attitudes. A fixed effect analysis shows that the female labour supply effects are particularly large following childbirth. Importantly, sons' human capital and labour supply are unaffected, suggesting the results are not driven by unobserved heterogeneity. All these findings imply that the intergenerational transmission of gender role attitudes explains a substantive part of gender inequalities.