This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on local … political jurisdictions. Local contrasts across the language border identify the role of culture for unemployment. Our findings … indicate that differences in culture explain differences in unemployment duration on the order of 20 %. Moreover, we find that …

We investigate the empirical relationship between ethnicity and culture, defined as a vector of traits reflecting norms … predictor of cultural values, yet that within-group variation in culture trumps between-group variation. Thus, in contrast to a … overlap between culture and ethnicity, finding that the level of economic development is positively associated with cultural …

particular, can culture constrain caloric intake and contribute to malnutrition? To answer this question, I first document that … on culture: that migrants make nutritionally-suboptimal food choices due to cultural preferences for the traditional …

: (i) vertical transmission of parental culture; (ii) horizontal influence from the neighborhood; (iii) economic penalty …

Economists have been reluctant to rely on culture as a possible determinant of economic phenomena. The notion of … culture is so broad and the channels through which it can enter the economic discourse so vague that it is difficult to design … testable hypotheses. In this paper we show this does need to be the case. We introduce a narrower definition of culture that …