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How does law change society? In the rational actor model, law affects behavior only by changing incentives and information-the command and coordination function of law. Under the view that humans are social animals, law is also a guidepost for social norms that regulate behavior-the expressive...
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This paper reviews the literature on gender and culture. Gender gaps in various outcomes (competitiveness, labor force … article reviews the literature on the relevance of culture in the determination of different forms of gender gap. I examine …
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. -- endogenous preferences ; culture ; caste ; frames ; anchors ; elicitation devices …
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Culture as reflected in social and religious norms may be pivotal to social organization in a decentralised economy … collectivist cultures to argue that collectivist culture may promote rules to indulge in family, social and religious values at the … promoting collectivist culture. Results using 1997 and 2007 Indonesian Family Life Survey community-level panel data highlight …
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A growing body of empirical work measuring different types of cultural traits has shown that culture matters for a … variety of economic outcomes. This paper focuses on one specific aspect of the relevance of culture: its relationship to … between culture and institutions. …
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cohort of young Israeli women, we identify the persistence of two important features of the Soviet culture: the …
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This paper uses a field experiment to study the effect of perceived gender norms on the motherhood penalty in the Indian labor market. We randomly reported motherhood on fictitious CVs sent to service sector job openings. We generated exogenous variation in gender norms by prominently signaling...
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Previous literature has shown that attitudes and preferences are intergenerationally transmitted from parents to their children. We contribute to this literature by analyzing whether gender role attitudes are also transmitted across cultural boundaries, i.e., from immigrants to natives. Focusing...
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We study whether mothers' labor supply is shaped by the gender role attitudes of their peers. Using detailed information on a sample of UK mothers with dependent children, we find that having peers with gender-egalitarian norms leads mothers to be more likely to have a paid job and to have a...
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