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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: ParenthoodSource
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 AnalysisDiscussion
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