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Alessandra Fogli
Researcher at Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Publications - 42
Citations - 3146
Alessandra Fogli is an academic researcher from Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. The author has contributed to research in topics: Total fertility rate & Fertility. The author has an hindex of 19, co-authored 42 publications receiving 2878 citations. Previous affiliations of Alessandra Fogli include New York University & Center for Economic and Policy Research.
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Mothers and Sons: Preference Formation and Female Labor Force Dynamics
TL;DR: The authors argue that the growing presence of a new type of man brought up in a family in which the mother worked has been a significant factor in the increase in female labor force participation over time.
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Culture: an empirical investigation of beliefs, work, and fertility
TL;DR: This article examined the effect of culture on important economic outcomes by using the 1970 census to examine the work and fertility behavior of women born in the U.S. but whose parents were born elsewhere.
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Fertility: the role of culture and family experience
TL;DR: This article used the GSS to examine the fertility of women born in the US but from different ethnic backgrounds and found that the number of siblings and number of parents are significant determinants of fertility, even after controlling for several individual and family level characteristics.
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Nature or Nurture? Learning and the Geography of Female Labor Force Participation
Alessandra Fogli,Laura Veldkamp +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that local information transmission generates changes in participation that are geographically heterogeneous, locally correlated and smooth in the aggregate, just like those observed in their data.
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The 'Great Moderation' and the US External Imbalance
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that an external imbalance is a natural consequence of the great moderation, and that a country experiences a fall in volatility greater than that of its partners, its relative incentives to accumulate precautionary savings fall and this results in an equilibrium permanent deterioration of its external balance.