Mastodawn

Mar 9, 2023

Delighted to share my new paper with Prof. Yue Qian in Nature Human Behaviour. (https://lnkd.in/eYtzn-f9)

Has global education expansion led to greater equality in educational opportunity? No, but why?

We show how gender and the mother really matter for intergenerational mobility.

Our evidence covers 106 societies (~90% world population) - 1.79 million respondents from 545 surveys born between 1956 and 1990.

Press: https://lnkd.in/eictiPkR

Research Briefing: https://lnkd.in/eegbnsSN

Yang Hu

Jan 27, 2023

Happy to share our new paper, which comprehensively theorizes/examines how occupational gender segregation is reproduced across generations. We propose & test the new theory of "gender boundary-setting". We distinguish direct occupational imitation from indirect gender learning. Recognizing the two-way traffic of children's social learning and parents' expectations, we disentangle whether children's social learning is "dictated" by their parents' directive (no) http://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12957

Yang Hu

Dec 24, 2022

One blessing of #chatGPT - it might just drive essay mills out of business? 🤣 😂 as an academic with a Chinese/non-English sounding name, I’ve had the ‘joy’ of receiving these essay-mill season’s greetings on a daily basis. 🙄

Yang Hu

Dec 21, 2022

Well into the 21 century, so disheartened to see global gender equality lapsing as such these days - Malaysia to punish women for 'acting like men' (WTF) and Taliban ban women from higher education 😡

Yang Hu

Nov 29, 2022

Happy to share @Mabouelenin_ & my new paper just published in @SexRoles - we examine why & how mother matters for daughters' employment stability in Egypt, and how the sectorial setting of the labour market shapes intergenerational processes. OPEN access: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11199-022-01326-w
#sociology #paper #research #gender #family @sociology

Maternal Employment Shapes Daughters’ Employment Stability in Egypt: Evidence for the Intergenerational Transmission of Labor Force Attachment - Sex Roles

Research has documented how maternal employment influences daughters’ participation in paid employment. However, we know far less about how maternal employment during daughters’ adolescence relates to the daughters’ subsequent employment stability. Analyzing data from three waves (2006, 2012, and 2018) of the Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey (N = 3,345) using structural equation models, this study compares the employment stability of women with and without working mothers during adolescence and examines how the influence of maternal employment on daughters’ employment stability varies with employment sector. Furthermore, a decomposition method is applied to determine the extent to which daughters’ education mediates the association between maternal employment and their employment stability. The results show that mothers’ employment is positively associated with their adult daughters’ employment stability. This intergenerational association is sector specific: mothers’ employment in a given sector only bolsters their daughters’ employment stability in the same sector. The daughter’s education mediates only a small portion of the intergenerational association in the public sector. The findings highlight the important role of Egypt’s institutional settings in configuring the intergenerational transmission of employment stability among women, and suggest that policies that support working mothers have the potential to bolster their daughters’ long-term labor market attachment.

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Yang Hu

Nov 25, 2022

Just booked tickets for #avatar2 - what an end-of-term treat!