Materfamilias: the association of mother’s work on children’s absolute income mobility, Southern Sweden (1947–2015)

Summary, in English

This article examines the association of mothers’ income with children’s economic mobility in a period of increased women’s labor market participation in Sweden. I found that whether a mother was economically independent and had an income similar to that of the father during her children’s late childhood and adolescence positively associated with upward mobility. The results show a substantial association of mother’s income position to their daughters’ mobility, but not for sons’. Among the primary mechanisms, I argue that extra resources from mothers helped human capital investment through education and that mothers influenced daughters by a gendered role model.

• Author: Gabriel Brea-Martinez
• Department/s: Department of Economic History; Centre for Economic Demography
• Publishing year: 2023
• Language: English
• Pages: 1-23
• Publication/Series: European Review of Economic History
• Volume: 27
• Issue: 1
• Links: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ereh/heac010
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Topic: Economic History
• Status: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 1474-0044