The life-cycle labor supply of women born at the turn of the 20th century diverged sharply from previous cohorts. Although they had similar participation rates in early adulthood, younger cohorts were significantly more likely to work at middle age. This paper documents a link between these changing patterns of female labor supply and the Great Depression. We find that the onset of the Great Depression led to an increase in young women's employment in 1930 via an added-worker effect. Cohorts induced into the workforce in the early 1930s had significantly higher employment rates through the 1940s and 1950s of up to 3 percentage points, suggesting a permanent impact of the Great Depression on women's lifecycle labor supply.

20世纪初出生的妇女的生命周期劳动力供应与以往的人群截然不同。尽管他们在成年初期的参与率相似，但年轻的队列在中年工作的可能性更大。本文记录了女性劳动力供给的这些不断变化的模式与大萧条之间的联系。我们发现，大萧条的爆发通过增加工人效应，在1930年导致年轻女性的就业增加。在1930年代初期进入劳动力大军的人群在1940年代和1950年代的就业率显着提高，高达3个百分点，这表明大萧条对妇女生命周期的劳动力供应产生了永久性影响。