Female Role Models and Labor Force Participation: The Case of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League

Margo Beck and Sara LaLumia
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Eastern Economic Journal, 2022, vol. 48, issue 4, No 2, 488-517

Abstract: Abstract This paper investigates how social influences have contributed to growth in female labor force participation, documenting how the role models of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League impacted female labor market outcomes between 1940 and 1950. Using a difference-in-difference strategy, comparing cities with teams to geographically nearby cities without teams, we find that female labor force participation in cities with an AAGPBL team increased by 1.8% points relative to otherwise similar cities without a team, and female employment rates increased by a similar amount.

Keywords: Labor force; Labor economic history (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J21 N32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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