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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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This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women … to distinguish the effect of culture from that of social capital. These results support a growing literature that … suggests that culture matters for economic behavior. At the same time, the results suggest considerable evidence of …
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This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women …
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This is a draft chapter for B. R. Chiswick and P. W. Miller (eds.) Handbook on the Economics of International Migration. It discusses some of the data and methodological challenges to estimating trends in family formation and union dissolution as well as fertility among immigrants, and examines...
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Ethnically diverse countries are more prone to conflict, but why do some groups engage in conflict while others do not? I show that civil conflict is explained by ethnic groups' cultural distance to the central government: an increase in cultural distance, proxied by linguistic distance,...
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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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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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of the presence of significant gravity effects of culture. The paper seeks to highlight three new research issues: (i … different immigrant groups; and (iii) the full culture-based development (CBD) mechanism of a joint cultural impact on the …
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specific to migrants' characteristics and behaviour, namely dimensions of proximity to the native population's culture and the … immigrant's cultural background and proximity with the culture of the host society still significantly explain variation in …
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