Gender Norms and Labour-Supply Expectations: Experimental Evidence from Adolescents

• 成果类型: Article; Early Access
• 署名作者: Grewenig, Elisabeth; Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina
• 署名单位: Technical University of Munich
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1093/ej/ueaf138
• 发表日期: 2026
• 关键词: college major; force participation; role attitudes; women; beliefs; gap; ECONOMICS; IDENTITY; outcomes; work

摘要

Gender gaps in labour-market outcomes often exacerbate with the arrival of the first child. We investigate how highlighting existing gender norms affects labour-supply expectations in a sample of 2,000 German adolescents. At baseline, the majority of girls expect to work 20 hours or less per week when having a young child, and expect their partners to work 30 hours or more. We implement randomised treatments that (i) increase the salience of the existing traditional norm prescribing labour supply of mothers and fathers of young children, and (ii) correct misperceptions about the norm's content. The treatments significantly reduce girls' self-expected labour supply and increase the expected within-family gender gap.