🚨 Christmas WP Alert 🚨 New study explores the causal impact of correcting misperceived gender norms on mothers' employment attitudes and expectations. Using a field experiment with German mothers of young children, we find three key results: 📄👇 #EconSky - ThreadSky

henninghermes.com • 66 days ago

🚨 Christmas WP Alert 🚨
New study explores the causal impact of correcting misperceived gender norms on mothers' employment attitudes and expectations. Using a field experiment with German mothers of young children, we find three key results:
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#EconSky

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henninghermes.com•66 days ago

joint work with the amazing Marina Krauss, @lergetporer.bsky.social, @fpeter.bsky.social & @simonwiederhold.bsky.social 🙏 🙌

henninghermes.com•66 days ago

Key result 1: Most mothers overestimate the conservativeness of gender norms in their city. An intervention providing accurate information reduced misperceptions by ~25% and shifted personal attitudes towards more maternal employment. #SocialNorms (Table 2) 📊

henninghermes.com•66 days ago

Key result 2: The intervention also shifted mothers’ own attitudes towards a more liberal view on maternal employment (effect size ~25% of the control group mean). Effect more pronounced for mothers overestimating the conservativeness around them and those with overall moderate attitudes (Fig. 3+4)

henninghermes.com•66 days ago

Key result 3: Attitude shifts are strongly linked to labor-market plans. Mothers in the treatment group were 18% more likely to plan increases in working hours. These shifts are notably stronger among mothers with access to childcare or partner involved in childcare. (Table 4) 📋

henninghermes.com•66 days ago

Link to the full working paper: https://www.cesifo.org/en/publications/2024/working-paper/causal-impact-gender-norms-mothers-employment-attitudes-and

Happy holiday everyone! 🎄🎅🤓🥳

henninghermes.com•66 days ago

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sussumhum.bsky.social•64 days ago

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