prime-age labor incomes of both men and women. Income persistence involving women (daughters and/or mothers) has risen … (residual) income, as well as assortative mating. Despite very similar trends and levels for mothers in the US and Sweden, we …

Policy changes in the United States in the 1990s resulted in sizable increases in employment rates of single mothers …. We show that this increase led to a large and abrupt increase in work experience for single mothers with young children …. We then examine the economic return to this increase in experience for affected single mothers. Despite the increases in …

leave policies. We analyze the impact of a major parental leave reform on mothers' long-term earnings. The 2007 German … policy on long-run earnings of mothers, we use a difference-in-difference approach that compares labor market outcomes of … mothers who gave birth just before and right after the reform and nets out season effects by including the year before. Using …

of gender conservativeness of the people around them. Exposure to information on peer beliefs leads to a shift in …

This paper explores how historical gender roles become entrenched as norms over the long run. In the historical United … States, gender roles on the frontier looked starkly different from those in settled areas. Male-biased sex ratios led to …--some emphasizing their entrepreneurial independence, others their prevailing domesticity. The distinctive frontier gender roles, in …

This paper combines personnel records of the U.S. federal government with census data to study how shocks to the gender … composition of a large organization can persistently shift gender norms. Exploiting city-by-department variation in the sudden … and horizontal transmission of gender norms and highlight how increasing gender representation within the public sector …