Relative Cohort Size, Relative Income, and Married Women's Labor Force Participation: United States, 1968-2010

2012 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 631-648 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane J. Macunovich
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Labor Force ◽  
Labor Force Participation ◽  
Relative Income ◽  
Cohort Size ◽  
Women's Labor ◽  
Women's Labor Force Participation

scholarly journals Cultural Change as Learning: The Evolution of Female Labor Force Participation over a Century

2013 ◽  
Vol 103 (1) ◽  
pp. 472-500 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raquel Fernández
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Labor Force ◽  
Labor Force Participation ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
The United States ◽  
Intergenerational Learning ◽  
Women's Labor ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Women's Labor Force Participation

This paper develops a learning model of cultural change to investigate why women's labor force participation (LFP) and attitudes toward women's work both changed dramatically. In the model, women's beliefs about the long-run payoff from working evolve endogenously via an intergenerational learning process. This process generically generates the data's S-shaped LFP curve and introduces a novel role for wage changes via their effect on the speed of intergenerational learning. The calibrated model does a good job of replicating the evolution of female LFP in the United States over the last 120 years and finds that the new role for wages was quantitatively significant.

Spending on Children across Four Countries: Variation in the Role of Income and Women’s Labor Force Participation

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 562-587
Author(s):  
Sabino Kornrich ◽  
Leah Ruppanner ◽  
Trude Lappegård
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Labor Force ◽  
Labor Force Participation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Female Labor Force Participation ◽  
Women's Labor ◽  
Public Provision ◽  
Female Labor ◽  
Expenditure Data ◽  
Women's Labor Force Participation

Abstract Scholars have recently documented inequalities in parents’ spending on children in the United States. This article situates these trends cross-nationally by using expenditure data from the United States, Australia, Spain, and Norway. The article investigates differences across countries in the links between household income, female labor force participation, and spending on children. The links between income, female labor force participation, and spending are largest in the United States and smallest in Norway, while Spain and Australia are intermediate cases, suggesting that public provision lessens inequalities in parental spending on children.

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