Publications by authors named "Ariel J Binder"
We leverage variation in the adoption of coeducation by U.S. women's colleges to study how exposure to a mixed-gender collegiate environment affects women's human capital investments.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis paper argues that distributions of spousal earnings gaps provide no identifying information for the male breadwinner norm, nor such a norm's consequences for gender inequality. First, we show that simple marital matching models-without norm-related assumptions-closely replicate U.S.
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- U.S. mothers' full-time employment patterns in the late 20th century varied significantly based on socioeconomic status (SES), with high-SES daughters more likely to have working mothers than low-SES daughters.
- The study analyzes how this unequal exposure to maternal employment influenced these daughters as adults raising their own children, revealing stronger employment ties for high-SES women compared to low-SES women.
- The research suggests that the intergenerational transmission of employment patterns accounts for 36% of the increasing disparities in maternal employment across different SES groups between 1999 and 2016, highlighting how family dynamics can amplify structural inequalities.