The Intergenerational Transmission of World War I on Female Labour

Victor Gay ()

The Economic Journal, 2023, vol. 133, issue 654, 2303-2333

Abstract: Demographic shocks tied to World War I’s high death toll induced many women to enter the labour force in the immediate post-war period. I document a positive impact of these newly employed women on the labour force participation of subsequent generations of women until today. I also find that the war permanently altered attitudes toward the role of women in the labour force. I decompose this impact into three channels of intergenerational transmission: transmission from mothers to daughters, transmission from mothers-in-law to daughters-in-law via their sons and transmission through local social interactions.

Date: 2023
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