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Title: Do Teenage Daughters Benefit From Their Professional Working Mothers?
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Artigliere, Stephanie L. |
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Do Teenage Daughters Benefit From Their Professional Working Mothers? Presented: Ithaca, NY, National Conference on Undergraduate Research, Ithaca College, March 31-April 2, 2011 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult Publisher: National Conferences on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) Keyword(s): Educational Aspirations/Expectations; Educational Attainment; Gender Attitudes/Roles; Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Maternal Employment; Mothers and Daughters; Undergraduate Research Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This study will examine how professional working mothers in dual-earner families influence their teenage daughters' future aspirations and educational attainment. These mothers inspire their daughters by providing positive role models through their own high educational attainment and career choices. As important mentors in teenage girls' lives these mothers expose their daughters to future opportunities such as attending college, entering a predominantly male field of work, or holding a leadership position. Economists have not looked at this important relationship to determine if such mentoring leads to better economic outcomes for adolescent girls. This mentoring is potentially meaningful if this type of role modeling leads young women to pursue more lucrative careers or more education. I hypothesize that those teenage daughters with professional working mothers in dual-earner families will achieve higher levels of educational attainment, apply to more prestigious colleges, and have a more favorable attitude toward women having professional careers. To test this hypothesis, I will build and estimate an econometric model using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, which has information on more than 1000 mother-daughter pairs. The sample will consist of intact families and family and individual specific controls will be used to net out the influence of the mother's employment from other factors that are likely influences on the daughter's gender role attitudes and choices with respect to schooling. Some of these controls include the mother's: age, education, occupation, marital history, and marital status. The goal of this study is to estimate the causal impact of a having a professional working mother on the educational decisions and aspirations of her teenage daughter. This knowledge is potentially important for policymakers who are interested in improving the economic independence of young women. |
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Artigliere, Stephanie L. "Do Teenage Daughters Benefit From Their Professional Working Mothers?" Presented: Ithaca, NY, National Conference on Undergraduate Research, Ithaca College, March 31-April 2, 2011. |