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Coming Apart? Cultural Distances in the United States over Time

Bertrand, Marianne - 2018

We analyze temporal trends in cultural distance between groups in the US defined by income, education, gender, race … based on his or her (i) media consumption, (ii) consumer behavior, (iii) time use, or (iv) social attitudes. Gender …

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Bend It Like Beckham : Ethnic Identity and Integration

Bisin, Alberto - 2010

heritage the more integrated are the neighborhoods where they reside and work. Data on ethnic preferences and attitudes …

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How Do We Choose Our Identity? A Revealed Preference Approach Using Food Consumption

Atkin, David - 2019

Are identities fungible? How do people come to identify with specific groups? This paper proposes a revealed preference approach, using food consumption to uncover ethnic and religious identity choices in India. We first show that consumption of identity goods (e.g. beef and pork) systematically...

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Cultural Proximity and Loan Outcomes

Fisman, Raymond - 2012

We present evidence that shared codes, religious beliefs, ethnicity - cultural proximity - between lenders and …

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Diversity and Donations : The Effect of Religious and Ethnic Diversity on Charitable Giving

Andreoni, James - 2011

We explore the effects of local ethnic and religious diversity on individual donations to private charities. Using 10-year neighborhood-level panels derived from personal tax records in Canada, we find that diversity has a detrimental effect on charitable donations. A 10 percentage point...

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Gender and Culture

Giuliano, Paola - 2020

This paper reviews the literature on gender and culture. Gender gaps in various outcomes (competitiveness, labor force … literature has argued that gender differences in a variety of outcomes could reflect underlying cultural values and beliefs. This … article reviews the literature on the relevance of culture in the determination of different forms of gender gap. I examine …

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Herding, Warfare, and a Culture of Honor : Global Evidence

Cao, Yiming; Enke, Benjamin; Falk, Armin; Giuliano, Paola; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

According to the widely known 'culture of honor' hypothesis from social psychology, traditional herding practices are believed to have generated a value system that is conducive to revenge-taking and violence. We test this idea at a global scale using a combination of ethnographic records,...

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Folklore

Michalopoulos, Stelios - 2019

Folklore is the collection of traditional beliefs, customs, and stories of a community, passed through the generations by word of mouth. This vast expressive body, studied by the corresponding discipline of folklore, has evaded the attention of economists. In this study we do four things that...

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Choosing Racial Identity in the United States, 1880-1940

Dahis, Ricardo - 2019

This paper documents that many black males experienced a change in racial classification to white in the United States, 1880 - 1940, while changes in racial classification were negligible for other races. We provide a rich set of descriptive evidence on the lives of black men "passing" for...

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Culture, Institutions & the Long Divergence

Bisin, Alberto; Rubin, Jared; Seror, Avner; Verdier, Thierry - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Recent theories of the Long Divergence between Middle Eastern and Western European economies focus on Middle Eastern (over-)reliance on religious legitimacy, use of slave soldiers, and persistence of restrictive proscriptions of religious (Islamic) law. These theories take as exogenous the...

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