Gender equality as a confounder in the epidemiological approach
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Gender equality as a confounder in the epidemiological approach. / Beblo, Miriam; Görges, Marie Luise; Markowsky, Eva.
In: Economics Bulletin, Vol. 40, No. 2, 09.05.2020, p. 1292-1299.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Gender equality as a confounder in the epidemiological approach
AU - Beblo, Miriam
AU - Görges, Marie Luise
AU - Markowsky, Eva
PY - 2020/5/9
Y1 - 2020/5/9
N2 - A rapidly growing literature uses the epidemiological approach (Fernandez & Fogli, 2009) to explore the impact of "culture" on economic behavior in a wide variety of geographical contexts. To better understand potential threats to identification, we apply the method to a recent European data set. We find that proxies of country-of-origin culture affect second-generation immigrant women`s labor force participation and fertility in Europe. The effect is economically and statistically significant among women descending from countries in which gender equality is relatively high, but it is far less pronounced or absent among women descending from low gender equality countries. These findings suggest that parental selection into migration, as well as intergenerational spillover effects, are important confounders in applications of the epidemiological approach.
AB - A rapidly growing literature uses the epidemiological approach (Fernandez & Fogli, 2009) to explore the impact of "culture" on economic behavior in a wide variety of geographical contexts. To better understand potential threats to identification, we apply the method to a recent European data set. We find that proxies of country-of-origin culture affect second-generation immigrant women`s labor force participation and fertility in Europe. The effect is economically and statistically significant among women descending from countries in which gender equality is relatively high, but it is far less pronounced or absent among women descending from low gender equality countries. These findings suggest that parental selection into migration, as well as intergenerational spillover effects, are important confounders in applications of the epidemiological approach.
KW - Gender and Diversity
KW - Economics
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85085319442&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Journal articles
VL - 40
SP - 1292
EP - 1299
JO - Economics Bulletin
JF - Economics Bulletin
SN - 1545-2921
IS - 2
ER -