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Title: Mothers, Peers and Gender Identity

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Publication Year: 2016

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Abstract: We study the formation of gender identity by looking at the labor-market decisions of young women. Specifically, we investigate whether and how a womans work behavior depends on the work behavior of her mother and that of her friends mothers. Using a representative sample of U.S. teenagers and their schoolmates followed over time, we find that both intergenerational channels positively affect a womans work hours in adulthood. The peers mother role model effect operates independently from the presence of peers influence. Our evidence is consistent with the presence of behavioral effects of social norms about mothers.

Url: http://fmwww.bc.edu/EC-P/wp904.pdf

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Authors: Patacchini, Eleonora; Olivetti, Claudia; Zenou, Yves

Publisher: Monash University, Boston College,Cornell University

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Family and Marriage, Gender, Other

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