abstract: 'This paper examines how culture impacts within-couple gender inequality.

  Exploiting the setting of Germany''s division and reunification, I

  compare child penalties of East Germans who were socialised in a more

  gender egalitarian culture to West Germans socialised in a gender

  -traditional culture. Using a household panel, I show that the long-run

  child penalty on the female income share is 23.9 percentage points for

  West German couples, compared to 12.9 for East German couples. The

  arrival of children also leads to a greater increase in the female share

  of housework and child care for West Germans. I add to the main findings

  by using time-use diary data from the German Democratic Republic (GDR)

  and reunified Germany, which provides a rare insight into gender

  inequality in the GDR and allows me to compare the effect of having

  children in the GDR to the effects in East and West Germany after

  reunification. Lastly, I show that attitudes towards maternal employment

  are more egalitarian among East Germans, but that the arrival of

  children leads to more traditional attitudes for both East and West

  Germans. The findings confirm that socialisation has a strong impact on

  child penalties and that family policies may have an impact on gender

  inequality through social learning in the long run.'
affiliation: 'Jessen, J (Corresponding Author), European Univ Viadrina, Grosse Scharrnstr
  59, D-15230 Frankfurt, Germany.

  Jessen, Jonas, European Univ Viadrina, Frankfurt, Germany.

  Jessen, Jonas, IZA Bonn, Bonn, Germany.

  Jessen, Jonas, Berlin Sch Econ, Berlin, Germany.

  Jessen, Jonas, European Univ Viadrina, Grosse Scharrnstr 59, D-15230 Frankfurt,
  Germany.'
article-number: '104310'
author: Jessen, Jonas
author-email: jjessen@europa-uni.de
author_list:
- family: Jessen
  given: Jonas
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2022.104310
earlyaccessdate: OCT 2022
eissn: 1873-572X
files: []
issn: 0014-2921
journal: EUROPEAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
keywords: Cultural norms; Gender inequality; Child penalty
keywords-plus: 'ROLE ATTITUDES; WORK; DIVISION; DYNAMICS; FAMILY; TRANSMISSION; GERMANY;

  REGIMES; MOTHERS; DIFFER'
language: English
month: NOV
number-of-cited-references: '65'
orcid-numbers: Jessen, Jonas/0000-0002-1908-6647
papis_id: b40043aeee33f7896c2047dfd96b0981
ref: Jessen2022culturechildren
times-cited: '1'
title: Culture, children and couple gender inequality
type: Article
unique-id: WOS:000878824200005
usage-count-last-180-days: '1'
usage-count-since-2013: '7'
volume: '150'
web-of-science-categories: Economics
year: '2022'