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women increase their labour supply and that this holds within households. We provide additional evidence on stated gender …
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Does culture affect female labor supply? In this paper, we address this question using a recent approach to measuring the effects of culture on economic outcomes, i.e. the epidemiological approach. We focus on migrants, who come from different cultures, but who share a common economic and...
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Past studies have consistently shown that cultural norms predict individual economic outcomes for second-generation US immigrants. However, due to the (mainly) European composition of immigrants prior to the 1965 Immigration Reform Act, most researchers have not accounted for the role of race...
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more gender equal views regarding the role of women in the labor market and argue that differences in gender views drive …
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supply and that this holds within household. We provide additional evidence on stated gender norms, West-East friendships …
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The existence of gender gaps in test scores has been documented in the relevant literature for a wide range of … across regions within the same country are crucial determinants in understanding gender differences in PISA 2009 test scores …: girls perform relatively better in both maths and reading in societies where gender equality is enhanced, and the effect …
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immigrants. Using unique German survey data, the paper identifies marked gender differences in the effects of ethnic …
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cultural markers that identify subnational population groups, and compare subnational divisiveness to gender divisiveness …
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Using a national representative sample, the China Family Panel Studies, this paper explores the influences of clan … culture, a hallmark of Chinese cultural history, on the prevalence of child labor in China. We find that clan culture …
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chaos, on a set of trust outcomes among people surveyed by the China Survey in 2008. We find that the revolution, identified … four decades prior to the China Survey, the results do not support viewing the sole passing of time as an effective cure to …
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