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The Missing Men. World War I and Female Labor Force Participation

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Using spatial variation in World War I military fatalities in France, we show that the scarcity of men due to the war generated an upward shift in female labor force participation that persisted throughout the interwar period. Available data suggest that increased female labor supply accounts for this result. In particular, deteriorated marriage market conditions for single women and negative income shocks to war widows induced many of these women to enter the labor force after the war. In contrast, demand factors such as substitution toward female labor to compensate for the scarcity of male labor were of second-order importance.
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hal-02523127 , version 1 (28-03-2020)
hal-02523127 , version 2 (11-06-2020)
hal-02523127 , version 3 (17-06-2022)

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Jörn Boehnke, Victor Gay. The Missing Men. World War I and Female Labor Force Participation. Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57 (4), pp.1209-1241. ⟨10.3368/jhr.57.4.0419-10151R1⟩. ⟨hal-02523127v3⟩
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