| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w21183 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 21183 |
| Mothers' Employment and Children's Educational Gender Gap | |
| Xiaodong Fan; Hanming Fang; Simen Markussen | |
| 发表日期 | 2015-05-18 |
| 出版年 | 2015 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | This paper analyzes the connection between two concurrent trends since 1950: the narrowing and reversal of the educational gender gap and the increased labor force participation rate (LFPR) of married women. We hypothesize that the education production for boys is more adversely affected by a decrease in the mother's time input as a result of increasing employment. Therefore, an increase in the labor force participation rate of married women may narrow and even reverse the educational gender gap in the following generation. We use micro data from the Norwegian registry to directly show that the mother's employment during her children's childhood has an asymmetric effect on the educational achievement of her own sons and daughters. We also document a positive correlation between the educational gender gap in a particular generation and the LFPR of married women in the previous generation at the U.S. state level. We then propose a model that generates a novel prediction about the implications of these asymmetric effects on the mothers' labor supply decisions and find supporting evidence in both the U.S. and Norwegian data. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Education |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w21183 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
| 引用统计 | |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/578856 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Xiaodong Fan,Hanming Fang,Simen Markussen. Mothers' Employment and Children's Educational Gender Gap. 2015. |
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