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. …

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 …

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 …

This paper reviews the literature on culture and economics, focusing primarily on the epidemiological approach. The … effect of culture from the original economic and institutional environment. This approach has been used to study a variety of … development among others. -- culture ; beliefs ; preferences ; norms …

-of-origin composition of a county matters. Moreover, the culture, institutions, and human capital that the immigrant groups brought with …, measures of culture that capture attitudes towards cooperation play the most important and robust role. Finally, our results …