RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Dads and Daughters
JF Journal of Human Resources
JO J Hum Resour
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 333
OP 372
DO 10.3368/jhr.46.2.333
VO 46
IS 2
A1 Judith K. Hellerstein
A1 Melinda Sandler Morrill
YR 2011
UL http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/46/2/333.abstract
AB We examine whether women’s rising labor force participation led to increased intergenerational transmission of occupation from fathers to daughters. We develop a model where fathers invest in human capital that is specific to their own occupations. Our model generates an empirical test where we compare the trends in the probabilities that women work in their father’s versus their father-in-law’s occupation. Using data from birth cohorts born between 1909 and 1977, our results indicate that the estimated difference in these trends accounts for at least 13–20 percent of the total increase in the probability that a woman enters her father’s occupation.