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Declines in male earning power + gains in female economic self-sufficiency -> reduced economic value of marriage to women (especially less-educated women) -> single-headed female households -> disproportionately negatively affects male children

Topic: Parenthood

Source

Citation: Wayward Sons: the Emerging Gender Gap in Labor Markets and Education, pp. 27, 29

Author(s): Autor, Wasserman

Institution(s): MIT

Link: http://economics.mit.edu/files/8754

Nation(s): United States

Year(s): 2013

Source: Primary

Type: Statistical Analysis

Discussion

Other Notes:

Lots of implicaitons with single-parent households; Also, possibility of giving girls expectations that women assume primary childrearing and income-earning responsibilities and boys take secondary role in both domains