全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): DP10218 Transmission of preferences and beliefs about female labor market participation: direct evidence on the role of mothers

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来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP10218
	DP10218 Transmission of preferences and beliefs about female labor market participation: direct evidence on the role of mothers
	Matilde Machado; Jesus Carro; Ricardo Mora
发表日期	2014-10-26
出版年	2014
语种	英语
摘要	Recently, 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.
主题	Industrial Organization
关键词	Female labor market participation Intergenerational transmission of preferences and/or beliefs Historical family data Church registry data Non-ignorable missingness Econometric methods for missing data
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp10218
来源智库	Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/539051
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Matilde Machado,Jesus Carro,Ricardo Mora. DP10218 Transmission of preferences and beliefs about female labor market participation: direct evidence on the role of mothers. 2014.