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Guiso, Luigi; Sapienza, Paola; Zingales, Luigi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Economists have been reluctant to rely on culture as a possible determinant of economic phenomena. The notion of culture is so broad and the channels through which it can enter the economic discourse so vague that it is difficult to design testable hypotheses. In this paper we show this does...

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Fertility: The Role of Culture and Family Experience

Fernández, Raquel; Fogli, Alessandra - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

use the GSS to examine the fertility of women born in the US but from different ethnic backgrounds. We take lagged values …

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Ethnic Self-Identification of First-Generation Immigrants

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F; Zimmermann, Laura - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

This paper uses the concept of ethnic self-identification of immigrants in a two-dimensional framework. It acknowledges the fact that attachments to the home and the host country are not necessarily mutually exclusive. There are three possible paths of adjustment from separation at entry, namely...

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Work and Money: Payoffs by Ethnic Identity and Gender

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

individuals end up varies among immigrants even from the same country. Moreover, the quest for ethnic identity affects women and … affects the labor force participation of men and women. Women who exhibit the integrated identity are more likely to work than … women who are German assimilated; this does not hold for men. However, once we control for selection in the labor market and …

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Human Capital and Ethnic Self-Identification of Migrants

Constant, Amelie; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, Klaus F; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

The paper investigates the role of human capital for migrants' ethnic ties towards their home and host countries. Pre-migration characteristics dominate ethnic self-identification. Human capital acquired in the host country does not affect the attachment to the receiving country.

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Gender, Ethnic Identity and Work

Constant, Amelie; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

. Assimilated immigrant women do better than those separated and marginalized, but those who develop an attachment to both cultures …

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Measuring Ethnic Identity and Its Impact on Economic Behaviour

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

The paper advocates for a new measure of the ethnic identity of migrants, models its determinants and explores its explanatory power for various types of their economic performance. The ethnosizer, a measure of the intensity of a person's ethnic identity, is constructed from information on the...

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Clash of Cultures: Muslims and Christians in the Ethnosizing Process

Constant, Amelie; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, Klaus F; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

The paper explores the evolution of ethnic identities of two important and distinct immigrant religious groups. Using data from Germany, a large European country with many immigrants, we study the adaptation processes of Muslims and Christians. Individual data on language, culture, societal...

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Ethnosizing Immigrants

Constant, Amelie; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

The paper provides a new measure of the ethnic identity of immigrants and explores its evolution in the host country. The ethnosizer, a measure of the intensity of a person's ethnic identity, is constructed from information on the following elements: language, culture, societal interaction,...

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Death and Development

Lorentzen, Peter L.; McMillan, John; Wacziarg, Romain - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

Analyzing a variety of cross-national and sub-national data, we argue that high adult mortality reduces economic growth by shortening time horizons. Higher adult mortality is associated with increased levels of risky behaviour, higher fertility, and lower investment in physical and human...

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