Building gender roles: Do children learn from their parents?

Begoña Álvarez and Daniel Miles

No 906, Working Papers from Universidade de Vigo, Departamento de Economía Aplicada

Abstract: Intergenerational transmission has been successfully employed in economic research to explain the persistence of certain economic behaviors across generations. This paper evaluates the relevance of this transmission process in the formation of gender roles during childhood. In particular, we analyze the relationship betwen parents’ and children’s housework allocation patterns. The empirical application is carried out with the Spanish Time Use Survey 2002—2003. We find a significant positive correlation between the fathers’ contribution to housework and a less asymmetrical distribution of domestic chores between sons and daughters. This correlation is robust to the inclusion of variables aimed at capturing social externalities and also to different definitions of father’s involvement with household labor.

JEL-codes: C35 J16 J22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 31 pages
Date: 2009-09
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