The Intergenerational Transmission of World War I on Female Labor

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Gay, Victor
• 署名单位: Universite de Toulouse; Universite Toulouse 1 Capitole; Toulouse School of Economics
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1093/ej/uead029
• 发表日期: 2023
• 页码: 2303-2333
• 关键词: gender-role attitudes; preference formation; force participation; EVOLUTION; roles; sons; origins; mothers; women

摘要

Demographic shocks tied to World War I's high death toll induced many women to enter the labour force in the immediate post-war period. I document a positive impact of these newly employed women on the labour force participation of subsequent generations of women until today. I also find that the war permanently altered attitudes toward the role of women in the labour force. I decompose this impact into three channels of intergenerational transmission: transmission from mothers to daughters, transmission from mothers-in-law to daughters-in-law via their sons and transmission through local social interactions.