worked, children are also an important determinant for the decision of college‐educated mothers to choose to work part …

A mother's decision to participate in the labour market is correlated with those of the other mothers living in the … same neighbourhood. This paper studies the extent to which this is causal. An identification problem exists because mothers … variables. Specifically, the sex of the eldest siblings of the other mothers living in the neighbourhood is used as an …

liberalization when mothers were 20 years old. We find a robust positive association between progressive beliefs among the … grandmothers' cohort and mothers' likelihood to work while having a small child (0 to 5 years old) relative to similar women …

. Employers are less likely to callback mothers relative to women or men without children, but only if they are of patrilineal … origin. Mothers of matrilineal origin face no such penalty. We discuss the results in relation to the competing influence of …