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100	1		_aFernández, Raquel.
245	1	4	_aThe Disappearing Gender Gap: _bThe Impact of Divorce, Wages, and Preferences on Education Choices and Women's Work / _cRaquel Fernández, Joyce Cheng Wong.
260			_aCambridge, Mass. _bNational Bureau of Economic Research _c2011.
300			_a1 online resource: _billustrations (black and white);
490	1		_aNBER working paper series _vno. w17508
500			_aOctober 2011.
520	3		_aWomen born in 1935 went to college significantly less than their male counterparts and married women's labor force participation (LFP) averaged 40% between the ages of thirty and forty. The cohort born twenty years later behaved very differently. The education gender gap was eliminated and married women's LFP averaged 70% over the same ages. In order to evaluate the quantitative contributions of the many significant changes in the economic environment, family structure, and social norms that occurred over this period, this paper develops a dynamic life-cycle model calibrated to data relevant to the 1935 cohort. We find that the higher probability of divorce and the changes in wage structure faced by the 1955 cohort are each able to explain, in isolation, a large proportion (about 60%) of the observed changes in female LFP. After combining all economic and family structure changes, we find that a simple change in preferences towards work can account for the remaining change in LFP. To eliminate the education gender gap requires, on the other hand, for the psychic cost of obtaining higher education to change asymmetrically for women versus men.
530			_aHardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
538			_aSystem requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files.
538			_aMode of access: World Wide Web.
588	0		_aPrint version record
690		7	_aD91 - Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making _2Journal of Economic Literature class.
690		7	_aE2 - Consumption, Saving, Production, Investment, Labor Markets, and Informal Economy _2Journal of Economic Literature class.
690		7	_aJ12 - Marriage • Marital Dissolution • Family Structure • Domestic Abuse _2Journal of Economic Literature class.
690		7	_aJ16 - Economics of Gender • Non-labor Discrimination _2Journal of Economic Literature class.
690		7	_aJ22 - Time Allocation and Labor Supply _2Journal of Economic Literature class.
690		7	_aZ1 - Cultural Economics • Economic Sociology • Economic Anthropology _2Journal of Economic Literature class.
700	1		_aWong, Joyce Cheng.
710	2		_aNational Bureau of Economic Research.
830		0	_aWorking Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) _vno. w17508.
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.nber.org/papers/w17508
856			_yAcceso en línea al DOI _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w17508
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