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Is Smoking Behavior Culturally Determined? Evidence from British Immigrants
Christopoulou, Rebekka; Lillard, Dean R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We exploit migration patterns from the UK to Australia, South Africa, and the US to investigate whether a person's decision to smoke is determined by culture. For each country, we use retrospective data to describe individual smoking trajectories over the life-course. For the UK, we use these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252324
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Culture, Ethnicity and Diversity
Wacziarg, Romain; Desmet, Klaus; Ortuño-Ortín, Ignacio - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
We investigate the empirical relationship between ethnicity and culture, defined as a vector of traits reflecting norms … overlap between culture and ethnicity, finding that the level of economic development is positively associated with cultural … diversity and negatively associated with the overlap between culture and ethnicity. Finally, although only a small portion of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011189106
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Fertility: The Role of Culture and Family Experience
Fernandez, Raquel; Fogli, Alessandra - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
This paper attempts to disentangle the direct effects of experience from those of culture in determining fertility. We use the GSS to examine the fertility of women born in the US but from different ethnic backgrounds. We take lagged values of the total fertility rate in the woman's country of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005050232
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Channeling Remittances to Education: A Field Experiment Among Migrants from El Salvador
Ambler, Kate; Aycinena, Diego; Yang, Dean - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We implement a randomized experiment offering Salvadoran migrants matching funds for educational remittances, which are channeled directly to a beneficiary student in El Salvador chosen by the migrant. The matches lead to increased educational expenditures, higher private school attendance, and...
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U.S. High-Skilled Immigration, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Approaches and Evidence
Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
High-skilled immigrants are a very important component of U.S. innovation and entrepreneurship. Immigrants account for roughly a quarter of U.S. workers in these fields, and they have a similar contribution in terms of output measures like patents or firm starts. This contribution has been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010692226
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Firms and the Economics of Skilled Immigration
Kerr, Sari Pekkala; Kerr, William R.; Lincoln, William F. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Firms play a central role in the selection, sponsorship, and employment of skilled immigrants entering the United States for work through programs like the H-1B visa. This role has not been widely recognized in the literature, and the data to better understand it have only recently become...
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Diasporas and Outsourcing: Evidence from oDesk and India
Ghani, Ejaz; Kerr, William R.; Stanton, Christopher T. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
This study examines the role of the Indian diaspora in the outsourcing of work to India. Our data are taken from oDesk, the world's largest online platform for outsourced contracts, where India is the largest country in terms of contract volume. We use an ethnic name procedure to identify ethnic...
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Does Immigration Hurt African-American Self-Employment?
Meyer, Bruce D.; Fairlie, Robert W. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1997
Previous studies tend to find that immigration has a weak negative effect on the employment and earnings of native-born workers. These studies overlook the effect of immigration on an important sector of the labor force, the self- employed. Anecdotal evidence suggests that immigrants, especially...
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Changes in the Characteristics of American Youth: Implications for Adult Outcomes
Altonji, Joseph G.; Lange, Fabian; Bharadwaj, Prashant - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
We examine changes in the characteristics of American youth between the late 1970s and the late 1990s, with a focus on characteristics that matter for labor market success. We reweight the NLSY79 to look like the NLSY97 along a number of dimensions that are related to labor market success,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005829509
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Changes in Workplace Segregation in the United States between 1990 and 2000: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data
Hellerstein, Judith K.; Neumark, David; McInerney, Melissa - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
We present evidence on changes in workplace segregation by education, race, ethnicity, and sex, from 1990 to 2000. The … find no evidence of declines in workplace segregation by race and ethnicity; indeed, black-white segregation increased …
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