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Transmission of preferences and beliefs about female labor market participation : direct evidence on the role of mothers

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dc.affiliation.dptoUC3M. Departamento de Economíaes
dc.contributor.authorCarro, Jesús M.
dc.contributor.authorMachado, Matilde P.
dc.contributor.authorMora, Ricardo
dc.contributor.editorUniversidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Economíaes
dc.date.accessioned2014-10-23T17:48:34Z
dc.date.available2014-10-23T17:48:34Z
dc.date.issued2014-10-01
dc.description.abstractRecently, economists have established that culture—defined as a common set of preferences and beliefs —affects economic outcomes, including the levels of female labor force participation. Although this literature has argued that culture is transmitted from parents to children, it has also recognized the difficulty in empirically disentangling the parental transmission of preferences and/or beliefs from other confounding factors, such as technological change or investment in education. Using church registry data from the 18th and 19th centuries, our primary contribution is to interpret the effect of a mother’s labor participation status on that of her daughter as the mother-to-daughter transmission of preferences and/or beliefs that are isolated from confounding effects. Because our data are characterized by abundant non-ignorable missing information, we estimate the participation model and the missing process jointly by maximum likelihood. Our results reveal that the mother’s working status has a large and statistically significant positive effect on the daughter’s probability of working. These findings suggest that intergenerational family transmission of preferences and/or beliefs played a decisive role in the substantial increases in female labor force participation that occurred later.en
dc.description.sponsorshipWe acknowledge the financial support of the Ramón Areces Foundation (2007), and the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation through Grants SEJ2007-66268 (Machado), ECO2009-11165 (Carro and Mora), ECO2010- 20504 (Machado), and ECO2012-31358 (Carro and Mora).en
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dc.identifier.issn2340-5031
dc.identifier.repecwe1421
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10016/19578
dc.identifier.uxxiDT/0000001286
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofseriesUC3M Working Papers Economicses
dc.relation.ispartofseries14-21
dc.relation.projectIDGobierno de España. ECO2012-31358
dc.rightsAtribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España
dc.rights.accessRightsopen accessen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/
dc.subject.jelJ22
dc.subject.jelJ24
dc.subject.jelJ16
dc.subject.jelJ12
dc.subject.otherFemale labor market participationen
dc.subject.otherIntergenerational transmission of preferences and/or beliefsen
dc.subject.otherHistorical family data,en
dc.subject.otherChurch registry dataen
dc.subject.otherNon-ignorable missingnessen
dc.subject.otherEconometric methods for missing dataen
dc.titleTransmission of preferences and beliefs about female labor market participation : direct evidence on the role of mothersen
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