Gender specialization in households: An empirical analysis

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• dc.contributor.author Ortega, Francescca
• dc.contributor.author Tanaka, Ryuichica
• dc.contributor.other Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa
• dc.date.accessioned 2017-07-26T10:50:26Z
• dc.date.available 2017-07-26T10:50:26Z
• dc.date.issued 2007-01-01
• dc.date.modified 2017-07-23T02:11:04Z
• dc.description.abstract This paper studies the effect of parental education on the educational attainment of children in the US for cohorts born after 1910. Importantly, we allow for cohort-specific differences by gender. Our estimates show that paternal education has been more important for the attainment of male children (paternal specialization on sons). However, maternal specialization (on daughters) seems to have appeared only for cohorts born after 1955. We interpret these results as evidence that fathers are more important role models for sons while mothers are a more important reference for daughters. We argue that our results are robust to the presence of hereditary unobserved ability and conjecture that both types of gender specialization may have been present in earlier cohorts too.
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• dc.identifier https://econ-papers.upf.edu/ca/paper.php?id=1021
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/752
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.relation.ispartofseries Economics and Business Working Papers Series; 1021
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• dc.subject.keyword Ability
• dc.subject.keyword Gender
• dc.subject.keyword Human capital
• dc.subject.keyword Educational economics
• dc.title Gender specialization in households: An empirical analysisca
• dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper