Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/272851 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
Staff Report No. 1038
Publisher: 
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York, NY
Abstract: 
We study how peer beliefs shape individual attitudes toward maternal labor supply using realistic hypothetical scenarios that elicit recommendations on the labor supply choices of a mother with a young child and an information treatment embedded within representative surveys. Across the scenarios, we find that individuals systematically overestimate the extent of gender conservativeness among the people around them. Exposure to information on peer beliefs leads to a shift in recommendations, driven largely by information-based belief updating. The information treatment also increases (intended and actual) donations to a nonprofit organization advocating for women in the workplace.
Subjects: 
expectations
social norms
information treatmen
JEL: 
D84
J22
C83
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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