The Intergenerational Transmission of World War I on Female Labour
研究发现,一战期间大量女性进入劳动力市场,这种影响通过母女、婆媳及社会互动三种渠道代际传递,持续至今并改变了社会对女性劳动角色的态度。
Abstract 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.