Fernández, Raquel; Fogli, Alessandra; Olivetti, Claudia - In: The Quarterly Journal of Economics 119 (2004) 4, pp. 1249-1299
This paper argues that the growing presence of a new type of man- one brought up in a family in which the mother worked- has been a significant factor in the increase in female labor force participation over time. We present crosssectional evidence showing that the wives of men whose mothers...