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Title: Sons, Daughters, and Labor Supply in Early Twentieth-Century Hawaii

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Publication Year: 2013

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Abstract: Immigration to Hawaii between 1868 and 1924 transformed its ethnic structure and population size. We investigate whether high Chinese, Japanese, and White sex ratios resources to daughters. Using IPUMS samples from the 1900, 1910, 1920, and 1930 Territorial Censuses of Hawaii, regression analysis suggests that both daughters and sons reduced mother labor force participation (LFP), but LFP effects are larger for a daughter than a son at some age intervals. Daughters have no effects on father LFP but for some age intervals a son has a positive effect on fathers LFP.

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Authors: La Croix, Sumner; Halliday, Timothy

Conference Name: Annual Meetings of the Economic History Association

Publisher Location: Washington, D.C.

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Family and Marriage, Gender, Labor Force and Occupational Structure

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