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The Berger Institute is undertaking a new research project examining work/family issues among female and male graduates of liberal arts colleges with a particular focus on the decision to exit the labor market following a shock to the household (i.e., child care or elder care). To complete this project we will create our own online survey instrument, which will be broad enough to examine questions from an interdisciplinary perspective. The Alumni Survey will be piloted at the Claremont Colleges during the 2009-10 academic year.
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Events & Speakers
October 5th, 2009: Sylvia Ann Hewlett - author of Off-Ramps and On-Ramps: Keeping Talented Women on the Road to Success (2007) at the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum. This event was co-hosted with The Lowe Institute of Political Economy, The Robert Day School of Economics and Finance, and The Athenaeum.
March 10th, 2010: Joanna Strober - author of Getting to 50/50: How Working Couples Can Have It All By Sharing It All at the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum.
April 16th, 2010: Southern California Conference in Applied Microeconomics. Co-hosted with the Lowe Institute of Political Economy.
Francine D. Blau - Frances Perkins Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Labor Economics and Academic Fellows of the Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA), will be the lunch key note speaker for this event.
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Congratulations Christian Alvarez!
 Congratulations to Research Assistant Christian Alvarez, CMC '11! Christian, was recently awarded the 2010 Western Psychological Foundation Robert L. Solso Research Award.
Christian has been working in conjunction with Berger Faculty Affiliate, Dr. Tomoe Kanaya, since 2009 and his research has culminated both in this award as well as in a presentation to be given at the 2010 Western Psychological Association Meeting in April. Christian has been a Research Assistant with the Institute since the Fall of 2008.
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New Evidence on the "Opt-Out Revolution"
Director of the Institute and Professor Heather Antecol presents new evidence on the opt-out revolution in the paper entitled "The Opt-Out Revolution: A Descriptive Analysis". Using data from the 1980, 1990, and 2000 U.S. Census, she finds little support for the opt-out revolution—highly educated women, relative to their less educated counterparts, are exiting the labor force to care for their families at higher rates today than in earlier time periods—if one focuses solely on the decision to work a positive number of hours irrespective of marital status or race. If one, however, focuses on both the decision to work a positive number of hours as well as the decision to adjust annual hours of work (conditional on working), she finds some evidence of the opt-out revolution, particularly among white college educated married women in male dominated occupations. Click here to read the full paper.
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The Berger Institute for Work, Family, and Children was established in 2001 to be a leading source of research on significant issues impacting the intersection between work and family. The Berger Institute focuses on quantitative research impacting business practices and families; supports high-quality interdisciplinary research by talented CMC professors, which will lead to publishing opportunities; provides challenging and stimulating educational experiences for CMC students from freshman year through graduation, resulting in high-quality student work and publishing opportunities; and connects the wider CMC community, including alumni and parents of students to provide practical information about significant work/family issues.