The Supply of Gender Stereotypes and Discriminatory BeliefsEdward L. Glaeser, Yueran MaThis chapter is a preliminary draft unless otherwise noted. It may not have been subjected to the formal review process of the NBER. This page will be updated as the chapter is revised.
Chapter in forthcoming NBER book Human Capital in History: The American Record, Leah P. Boustan, Carola Frydman, and Robert A. Margo, editors What determines beliefs about the ability and appropriate role of women? An overwhelming majority of men and women born early in the twentieth century thought women should not work; a majority now believes that work is appropriate for both genders. To explain this change, we present a model where parents perpetuate beliefs out of a desire to encourage the production of grandchildren. Undersupply of female education will encourage daughters’ fertility, directly by reducing the opportunity cost of their time and indirectly by leading daughters to believe that they are less capable. Children will be particularly susceptible to persuasion if they overestimate their parents’ altruism towards themselves. The supply of persuasion will diminish if women work before child-bearing, which may explain why gender-related beliefs changed radically among generations born in the 1940s.
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This paper was revised on December 19, 2013 Machine-readable bibliographic record - MARC, RIS, BibTeX This chapter first appeared as NBER working paper w19109, The Supply of Gender Stereotypes and Discriminatory Beliefs, Edward L. Glaeser, Yueran MaUsers who downloaded this chapter also downloaded these:
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