This paper analyzes how culture affects the engagement of parents in child-rearing activities, and time allocations of …

cultural background relative to individual heterogeneity and group-level differences in cooperation. We find that culture has a …

This paper studies the transmission mechanism from family culture to economic institutions, by analyzing the impact of …

culture from other confounds, however, is often a daunting, sometimes intractable challenge for the working empiricist. To … preferences related to fertility and mortality, the two basic components of genetic fitness. We specifically select six referenda … related to health and fertility and analyse differences in the proportion of yes votes across municipalities on the two sides …

This paper explores intergenerational transmission of culture and the consequences of a plausible assumption: that … people care not only for their children’s culture but also for how their grand-children are raised. This departs from the … socialization, parents. discounting, social pressure and interaction between groups are derived. In equilibrium, parents behave more …

students who moved across the East-West border after German reunification with students who moved within former East Germany …

Turkish individuals and in other crimes targeting Islamic immigrants in Germany. Using German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP) data …

We document the spatial diffusion of Friedrich Froebel’s radical invention of kindergartens in 19th-century Germany …

This paper examines how marital and fertility patterns have changed along racial and educational lines for men and …