Abstract
I examine how one central aspect of the family environment—sibling sex composition—affects women’s gender conformity. Using Danish administrative data, I causally estimate the effect of having a second-born brother relative to a sister for first-born women. I show that women with a brother acquire more traditional gender roles as measured through their choice of occupation and partner. This results in a stronger response to motherhood in labor market outcomes. As a relevant mechanism, I provide evidence of increased gender-specialized parenting in families with mixed-sex children. Finally, I find persistent effects on the next generation of girls.
Originalsprog | Engelsk |
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Tidsskrift | Journal of Population Economics |
Vol/bind | 35 |
Udgave nummer | 4 |
Sider (fra-til) | 1859-1896 |
Antal sider | 38 |
ISSN | 0933-1433 |
DOI | |
Status | Udgivet - 2022 |
Bibliografisk note
Funding Information:I thank Marianne Bitler, David Card, Angela Cools, Orla Doyle, Christian Dustmann, Ernst Fehr, Anne Gielen, Jennifer Graves, Mette Gørtz, Victor Lavy, Søren Leth-Petersen, Shelly Lundberg, Neel Rao, Yana Rodgers, Philip Rosenbaum, Heather Royer, Matti Sarvimäki, Jenna Stearns, Jakob Egholt Søgaard, Melanie Wasserman, Ulf Zölitz, Josef Zweimüller, the editor, Shuaizhang Feng, two anonymous reviewers, and seminar participants at the University of Copenhagen (Department of Economics and Department of Sociology), University of California Santa Barbara, University of California Berkeley, University of California Davis, the IZA Summer School in Labor Economics 2017, Workshop: Education, Skills, and Labor Market Outcomes 2017, the CEN Workshop 2017, IWAEE 2017, Lund University, the 2nd IZA Workshop: Economics of Education, Copenhagen Business School, Aarhus University, the University of Southern Denmark, the DGPE 2017, the University of New South Wales, the University of Sydney, the AASLE 2017, the CAM Workshop 2017, the ASSA Meetings 2018, the University of Vienna, the University of Essex, the University of Zurich, the Hanken School of Economics, DIW Berlin, Monash University, McMaster University, SOLE 2018, the University of St. Gallen, NBER Children’s Spring Meeting 2019, the University of Lausanne, the University of Groningen, and the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics for helpful discussions and comments.
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