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Cultural Change as Learning: The Evolution of Female Labor Force Participation over a Century

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Fernández, Raquel·2013·American Economic Review
DOI 10.1257/aer.103.1.472
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This paper develops a learning model of cultural change to investigate why women's labor force participation (LFP) and attitudes toward women's work both changed dramatically. In the model, women's beliefs about the long-run payoff from working evolve endogenously via an intergenerational learning process. This process generically generates the data's S-shaped LFP curve and introduces a novel role for wage changes via their effect on the speed of intergenerational learning. The calibrated model does a good job of replicating the evolution of female LFP in the United States over the last 120 years and finds that the new role for wages was quantitatively significant.

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Authors
Fernández, R.
Venue
American Economic Review
Publisher
American Economic Association
Published
2013-02-01
Volume
103
Issue
1
Pages
472-500
ISSN
0002-8282 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1257/aer.103.1.472
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W3124578771
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641
References
72
FWCI
106.34
Type
journal article
Language
en
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