Materfamilias: the association of mother’s work on children’s absolute income mobility, Southern Sweden (1947–2015)
Affiliation:
1. Lund University Centre for Economic Demography, Department of Economic History, , Sweden , gabriel.brea_martinez@ekh.lu.se
Abstract
Abstract
This article examines the association of mothers’ income with children’s economic mobility in a period of increased women’s labor market participation in Sweden. I found that whether a mother was economically independent and had an income similar to that of the father during her children’s late childhood and adolescence positively associated with upward mobility. The results show a substantial association of mother’s income position to their daughters’ mobility, but not for sons’. Among the primary mechanisms, I argue that extra resources from mothers helped human capital investment through education and that mothers influenced daughters by a gendered role model.
Funder
The Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Subject
Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous),History
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