How Do Men Come To Value Female Talent?

09/07/2024 17 min
How Do Men Come To Value Female Talent?

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Episode Synopsis

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