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Title: Neighborhood Effects and the Decision of Women to Work

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Publication Year: 2014

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Abstract: We examine the influence of neighborhood peer effects on the decision of women to work using 1985-1993 American Housing Survey data that follows clusters of adjacent homes over time. Modeling assumptions imply rank order restrictions on the effect of nearby working and non-working peers and non-peers that guide the analysis. Estimates indicate that female labor supply is sensitive to peer effects and at least in part because women emulate the work behavior of nearby women with similar age children. For men, peer effects are present in simply specified models but disappear in more robust specifications, consistent with inelastic work decisions. Findings confirm eh value of geographically concentrated panel data and other modeling features when attempting to identify peer effects.

Url: http://cep.lse.ac.uk/seminarpapers/24-10-14-SR.pdf

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Authors: Mota, Nuno; Patacchini, Eleonora; Rosenthal, Stuart S.

Publisher: University of Syracuse

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Topics: Gender, Housing and Segregation, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other

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