@article{e3fa101f428e48e18c62c641c719d196,
title = "Mothers and sons: Preference formation and female labor force dynamics",
abstract = "This paper argues that the growing presence of a new type of man - one brought up in a family in which the mother worked - has been a significant factor in the increase in female labor force participation over time. We present cross-sectional evidence showing that the wives of men whose mothers worked are themselves significantly more likely to work. We use variation in the importance of World War II as a shock to women's labor force participation - as proxied by variation in the male draft rate across U. S. states - to provide evidence in support of the intergenerational consequences of our propagation mechanism.",
author = "Raquel Fern{\'a}ndez and Alessandra Fogli and Claudia Olivetti",
note = "Funding Information: * We thank two anonymous referees and the editor, Lawrence Katz, for many helpful comments. We are also grateful for suggestions from Daron Acemoglu, Oriana Bandiera, Mark Gertler, Claudia Goldin, Per Krusell, Kevin Lang, Fab-rizio Perri, Torsten Persson, Steven Pischke, Jonathan Portes, Kjetil Storesletten, Giorgio Topa, and seminar participants at many conferences and universities. The first author also thanks the CV Starr Center and the National Science Foundation for financial support. This paper combined material presented in our NBER working papers Nos. 9234 and 10589. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis or the Federal Reserve System.",
year = "2004",
month = nov,
doi = "10.1162/0033553042476224",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "119",
pages = "1249--1299",
journal = "Quarterly Journal of Economics",
issn = "0033-5533",
publisher = "Oxford University Press",
number = "4",
}