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| This field experiment investigates the causal impact of mothers’ perceptions of gender norms on their employment attitudes and labor-supply expectations. We provide mothers of young children in Germany with information about the prevailing gender norm regarding maternal employment in their city. At baseline over 70% of mothers incorrectly perceive this gender norm as too conservative - the most pronounced misperception among the various gender norms we examine. Our randomized information treatment improves the accuracy of these perceptions significantly reducing the share of mothers who perceive gender norms as overly conservative. The treatment also shifts mothers’ own labormarket attitudes in a more liberal direction. Leveraging the fact that we assessed attitudes in a prior survey we show that specifically the shifted attitude is a strong predictor of mothers’ future labor-market participation. Consistently treated mothers are more likely to plan an increase in their working hours particularly those with existing support to facilitate their employment. |
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