| 来源类型 | Working Paper
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| 规范类型 | 报告
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| DOI | 10.3386/w13373
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| 来源ID | Working Paper 13373
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| Culture as Learning: The Evolution of Female Labor Force Participation over a Century |
| Raquel Fernandez
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| 发表日期 | 2007-09-06
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| 出版年 | 2007
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | Married women's labor force participation has increased dramatically over the last century. Why this has occurred has been the subject of much debate. This paper investigates the role of culture as learning in this change. To do so, it develops a dynamic model of culture in which individuals hold heterogeneous beliefs regarding the relative long-run payoffs for women who work in the market versus the home. These beliefs evolve rationally via an intergenerational learning process. Women are assumed to learn about the long-term payoffs of working by observing (noisy) private and public signals. They then make a work decision. This process generically generates an S-shaped figure for female labor force participation, which is what is found in the data. The S shape results from the dynamics of learning. I calibrate the model to several key statistics and show that it does a good job in replicating the quantitative evolution of female LFP in the US over the last 120 years. The model highlights a new dynamic role for changes in wages via their effect on intergenerational learning. The calibration shows that this role was quantitatively important in several decades. |
| 主题 | Macroeconomics
; Consumption and Investment
; Labor Economics
; Labor Supply and Demand
; Other
; Culture
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| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w13373
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| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/571045
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Raquel Fernandez. Culture as Learning: The Evolution of Female Labor Force Participation over a Century. 2007.
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