Female labor

The Intergenerational Transmission of World War I on Female Labor

The interwar inflow of women in the labor force due to WWI persisted until today through intergenerational transmission mechanisms.

The Missing Men. World War I and Female Labor Force Participation

The scarcity of men due to the war generated an upward shift in female labor force participation that persisted throughout the interwar period.

Decomposing Culture. An Analysis of Gender, Language, and Labor Supply in the Household

Married female immigrants to the U.S. who speak a language with sex-based grammatical rules exhibit lower labor force participation, hours worked, and weeks worked.

The Legacy of the Missing Men: World War I and Female Labor in France Over a Century

Dissertation defended at the Departement of Economics of the University of Chicago in Spring 2018.

Language and Gender Roles among Immigrants to the U.S. A Historical Perspective

First-generation immigrants to the U.S. from 1910 to the present are less likely to participate in the labor force if their mother tongue marks gender distinctions more pervasively.

Migration As A Window Into The Coevolution Between Language And Behavior

The epidemiological approach enables to identify the relationship between sex-based gender distinctions in language and female labor force participation.

The Grammatical Origins of Gender Roles

Women speaking languages that more pervasively mark gender distinctions are less likely to participate in economic and political life, and more likely to encounter barriers in their access to land and credit.