How Do Men Come To Value Female Talent?
During the World War I, the US federal government…
ROCKING OUR PRIORS · Dr Alice Evans
July 9, 202417m 30s
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During the World War I, the US federal government was short on civil servants and actively recruited women.
Abhay Aneja, Silvia Farina, and Guo Xu find that men with multiple female colleagues were subsequently more likely to marry working women and father careerist daughters! Crucially, the effect is larger when men have many female colleagues and it becomes perfectly conventional.
Paper: https://www.nber.org/papers/w32639