@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp18431,
            	author={Brenøe, Anne Ardila and Rutnam, Daphne},
            	title={Parents' Perceptions of Occupational Fit},
            	year={2026},
	month={Mar},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={18431},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp18431},
	abstract={We study how adolescents’ second-order beliefs about their parents’ occupational preferences shape gendered career aspirations. In a consequential early-career choice setting, we combine a parental choice experiment with a randomized salience intervention among students. Parents give gendered recommendations, but students substantially overestimate fathers' preference for boys to choose male-dominated occupations as well as mothers' preference for girls to choose female-dominated occupations. Making the same-gender parent salient raises aspirations for gender-congruent occupations, while highlighting the opposite-gender parent and both parents has no effect. Salience does not shift perceived occupational fit, suggesting that identity-based second-order beliefs can reinforce occupational gender segregation.},
	keywords={gender norms;second-order beliefs;occupational aspirations;parental beliefs;identity and career choice;early-career choices;choice experiment;field experiment},
            }