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Some immigrants try to keep their ethnicity hidden while others become ever deeply more mired in their home culture. We …
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implications for culture-led welfare policies. …
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culture, a hallmark of Chinese cultural history, on the prevalence of child labor in China. We find that clan culture …Using a national representative sample, the China Family Panel Studies, this paper explores the influences of clan … driven by boys rather than girls, which reflects the patrilineal nature of Chinese clan culture. Moreover, the impact is …
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A model is set up where migrants must choose a level of social traits and consumption of ethnic goods. As the consumption level of ethnic goods increases, the migrants become ever more different to the local population and are less assimilated. Less assimilation affects the reaction of the local...
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This study reveals the pivotal impact of the prehistoric out-of-Africa migration on global variation in the degree of cultural diversity within ethnic and national populations. Drawing on novel diversity measures - encompassing folkloric and musical traditions among indigenous ethnic groups, as...
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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 … and religiosity proxies are included shows that culture and religiosity have separately significant effects on female …
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of strong persistence of culture among those with longer tenure in the host country, those who immigrated as children or …
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Using a US nationally representative sample of over 6,000 adults from 26 countries of ancestry, we find a strong association between their financial literacy in the US and the financial literacy level in their self-reported country of ancestry. More specifically, if an individual from a country...
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researchers have not accounted for the role of race and ethnicity in identifying culture parameters. Moreover, the majority of … cultural norms and female labor supply. For non-Hispanic Whites, the impact of culture is explained by variation in country … of labor supply are local culture and social capital measures. …
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substantial within-country volatility. This volatility is at odds with the notion of culture adopted in economics: a set of slow … interactions. The insufficient persistence of survey proxies for such traits may compromise empirical studies of culture as a …
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