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This paper explores the role of the gender equality culture in cross-country gender commuting gap differences. To avoid … inter-relationships between culture, institutions, and economic conditions in a simple cross-country analysis, we adopt the … evidence of the existence of a cultural impact. Our results show that a culture with more gender equality in the country of …
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This paper explores the role of culture in determining divorce decisions by examining country of origin differences in … evidence of the effect of culture. Our results are robust to controlling for several home country variables including average …-ethnics. Supplemental analyses indicate that divorce culture has a stronger impact on the divorce decisions of females than of males …
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In this paper, we analyze the role of culture in determining whether, or not, an individual is a homeowner. We use data … driving our findings. Additionally, we present evidence of different mechanisms of transmission of culture (horizontal …
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In this paper, we examine whether culture plays a role in the gender division of household labor. To explore this issue … gender division of housework may be due to cultural differences. We find that the higher the culture of gender equality in … housework and childcare as household labor. Our work is extended by examining how culture operates and is transmitted. We study …
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account for the differences in entrepreneurial spirit across countries. This paper explores the role of culture in self … differences in self-employment rates by country of origin as evidence of the effect of culture. Using this epidemiological … approach, we find that culture has quantitatively significant effects the self-employment decision. …
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