teenager's own mother, as well as that of her friends' mothers, affect her work decisions in adulthood. The first mechanism is … her friends' mothers' choices when she was a teenager, and the interaction between the two. The empirical salience of this … distant she is (in terms of working hours) from the friends' mothers. …

This paper investigates whether the effects of children on the labor market outcomes of women relative to men -- child … fraction of peers with working parents across cohorts within schools, we find that greater exposure to working mothers during …