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Should Mothers Work? How Perceptions of the Social Norm Affect Individual Attitudes Toward Work in the U.S

Cortés, Patricia; Koşar, Gizem; Pan, Jessica; Zafar, Basit - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We study how peer beliefs shape individual attitudes toward maternal labor supply using realistic hypothetical scenarios that elicit recommendations on the labor supply choices of a mother with a young child and an information treatment embedded within representative surveys. Across the...

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Daughters as Safety Net? Family Responses to Parental Employment Shocks : Evidence from Alcohol Prohibition

Aizer, Anna; Grafton, Gabrielle; Pérez, Santiago - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

We study the impact of Federal alcohol Prohibition in 1919 on workers in the alcohol industry and their families using newly linked census records that allow us to follow spouses, sons and daughters. Immediately after Prohibition, men previously working in alcohol-related industries were less...

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The Wage Curve After the Great Recession

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex; Spurling, Jackson - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Most economists maintain that the labor market in the United States is 'tight' because unemployment rates are low. They infer from this that there is potential for wage-push inflation. However, real wages are falling rapidly at present and, prior to that, real wages had been stagnant for some...

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Working from Home Around the World

Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The pandemic triggered a large, lasting shift to work from home (WFH). To study this shift, we survey full-time workers who finished primary school in 27 countries as of mid 2021 and early 2022. Our cross-country comparisons control for age, gender, education, and industry and treat the U.S....

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Automation : Theory, Evidence, and Outlook

Restrepo, Pascual - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This article reviews the literature on automation and its impact on labor markets, wages, factor shares, and productivity. I first introduce the task model and explain why this framework offers a compelling way to think about recent labor market trends and the effects of automation technologies....

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Intuit QuickBooks Small Business Index : A New Employment Series for the US, Canada, and the UK

Akcigit, Ufuk; Chhina, Raman; Cilasun, Seyit Mümin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Small and young businesses are essential for job creation, innovation, and economic growth. Even most of the superstar firms start their business life small and then grow over time. Small firms have less internal resources, which makes them more fragile and sensitive to macroeconomic conditions....

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Beliefs and Realities of Work and Childcare After Childbirth

Caplin, Andrew; Leth-Petersen, Søren; Tonetti, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

When women plan for life after childbirth, they form beliefs about work, childcare, and how their careers will unfold. These expectations shape key decisions but are formed under deep uncertainty. We use a 2019 state-contingent survey of 11,000 Danish women linked to administrative data to...

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The Road Not Taken : How Driving Distance and Appointment Availability Shape the Effects of Abortion Bans

Myers, Caitlin K.; Dench, Daniel; Pineda-Torres, Mayra - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

We use difference-in-differences research designs to estimate the effects of abortion bans on births at the county level, leveraging data on changes in driving distance and appointment availability at the nearest facility where abortion remains legal. We find that bans alone increase births, but...

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Malthusian Migrations

Blanc, Guillaume; Wacziarg, Romain - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

For most of human history, until the fertility transition, technological progress translated into larger populations … dynamics after the European discovery and colonization of the Americas. We document a strong relationship between fertility and … identification strategies. During the Age of Mass Migration, persistently high fertility across much of Europe created a large …

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The Menopause "Penalty"

Conti, Gabriella; Ginja, Rita; Persson, Petra; Willage, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

The motherhood penalty is well-documented, but what happens at the other end of the reproductive spectrum? Menopause--a transition often marked by debilitating physical and psychological symptoms--also entails substantial costs. Using population-wide Norwegian and Swedish data and...

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