Cavapozzi, Danilo; Francesconi, Marco; Nicoletti, Cheti - 2021
We study whether mothers' labor supply is shaped by the gender role attitudes of their peers. Using detailed … information on a sample of UK mothers with dependent children, we find that having peers with gender-egalitarian norms leads … conforming gender role attitudes to their peers', with the remaining half being explained by the spillover effect of peers' labor …
