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 …

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 …

conditions suggests a major role for culture in determining living arrangements. -- culture ; living arrangements ; immigrants …

This paper explores the role of culture in determining divorce decisions by examining country of origin differences in … evidence of the effect of culture. Our results are robust to controlling for several home country variables including average …-ethnics. Supplemental analyses indicate that divorce culture has a stronger impact on the divorce decisions of females than of males …