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When the Kids Grow Up : Women's Employment and Earnings across the Family Cycle

Goldin, Claudia; Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Olivetti, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Women earn less than men, and that is especially true of mothers relative to fathers. Much of the widening occurs after family formation when mothers reduce their hours of work. But what happens when the kids grow up? To answer that question, we estimate three earning gaps: the "motherhood...

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Changes in Marriage and Divorce as Drivers of Employment and Retirement of Older Women

Olivetti, Claudia - 2016

employment and retirement outcomes for older women. The spread of unilateral divorce, we find, was associated with cross … divorce significantly increases the probability of full-time employment later in life, and significantly decreases retirement … does not impact full-time employment after age 50 but is positively associated with investment in education post marriage …

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Mothers, Friends and Gender Identity

Olivetti, Claudia - 2013

This paper explores a novel mechanism of gender identity formation. Specifically, we explore how the work behavior of a teenager's own mother, as well as that of her friends' mothers, affect her work decisions in adulthood. The first mechanism is commonly included in economic models. The second,...

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Why Firms Offer Paid Parental Leave : An Exploratory Study

Goldin, Claudia; Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Olivetti, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2020

Why do competitive firms in the US provide paid parental leave (PPL)? Which firms do and to what extent? We use several firm- and individual-level data sets to answer these questions. These include the BLS-Employee Benefit Survey (EBS) for 2010 to 2018 and an extensive firm-level data collection...

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Who Married, (to) Whom, and Where? Trends in Marriage in the United States, 1850-1940

Olivetti, Claudia - 2020

We present new findings about the relationship between marriage and socioeconomic background in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. Imputing socioeconomic status of family of origin from first names, we document a socioeconomic gradient for women in the probability of...

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Three-generation Mobility in the United States, 1850-1940 : The Role of Maternal and Paternal Grandparents

Olivetti, Claudia - 2016

This paper estimates intergenerational elasticities across three generations in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. We extend the methodology in Olivetti and Paserman (2015) to explore the role of maternal and paternal grandfathers for the transmission of economic status...

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In the Name of the Son (and the Daughter) : Intergenerational Mobility in the United States, 1850-1930

Olivetti, Claudia - 2013

This paper provides a new perspective on intergenerational mobility in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. We devise an empirical strategy that allows to calculate intergenerational elasticities between fathers and children of both sexes. The key insight of our approach...

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Gendered Change : 150 Years of Transformation in US Hours

Ngai, Liwa Rachel; Olivetti, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

create a consistent measure of male and female employment and hours for the US for 1870-2019, including paid work and unpaid …

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Shocking Labor Supply : A Reassessment of the Role of World War II on U.S. Women's Labor Supply

Goldin, Claudia; Olivetti, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2013

The most prominent feature of the female labor force across the past hundred years is its enormous growth. But many believe that the increase was discontinuous. Our purpose is to identify the short- and long-run impacts of WWII on the labor supply of women who were currently married in 1950 and...

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Mobilizing the Manpower of Mothers : Childcare under the Lanham Act during WWII

Ferrie, Joseph P.; Goldin, Claudia; Olivetti, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

programs became well-funded but were late to start, limited in scope, and incapable of greatly increasing women's employment in …

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