Politico-Economic Regimes and Attitudes: Female Workers under State Socialism
利用二战后德国分裂的自然实验，研究发现东德女性比西德女性更重视职业成功，且东德整体对传统性别角色的认同度更低，这种态度变化与女性就业增长相关。
This paper investigates whether attitudes are affected by politico-economic regimes. We exploit the efforts of state socialist regimes to promote women's economic inclusion. Using the German partition after World War II, we show that women from East-Germany are more likely to place importance on career success compared to women from West-Germany. Further, the population at large in East Germany is less likely to hold traditional gender role attitudes. Examining possible mechanisms, we find that the change in attitudes under the East German regime was larger in areas where the growth in female employment was larger. A comparison of Eastern versus Western Europe confirms these results.