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Culture or context? : revisiting the role of culture in shaping economic outcomes

Adnan, Wifag - 2019

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. …

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Does Culture Matter?

Fernández, Raquel - 2010

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 …

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Immigrants' "ability" and welfare as a function of cultural diversity : effect of cultural capital at individual and local level

Tubadji, Annie; Gheasi, Masood; Nijkamp, Peter - 2014

This paper presents an operationalization of a mixed Bourdieu–Mincer-type model that seeks to find evidence for individual and local cultural capital effects on human capital 'ability'. We aim to compare these effects for native workers and immigrants (as well as between immigrants themselves)...

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Does it matter where you came from? : ancestry composition and economic performance of US counties, 1850 - 2010

Fulford, Scott L.; Petkov, Ivan; Schiantarelli, Fabio - 2015

-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 …

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Migration, friendship ties and cultural assimilation

Facchini, Giovanni; Patacchini, Eleonora; Steinhardt, … - 2014

Using novel information from the German Socio-Economic Panel for the period 1996-2011, we document that migrants with a German friend are more similar to natives than those without a local companion along several important dimensions, including engagement in social activities, concerns about the...

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Please call me John : name choice and the assimilation of immigrants in the United States, 1900-1930

Carneiro, Pedro; Lee, Sokbae; Reis, Hugo - 2016

The vast majority of immigrants to the United States at the beginning of the 20th century adopted first names that were common among natives. The rate of adoption of an American name increases with time in the US, although most immigrants adopt an American name within the first year of arrival....

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Cultural diversity : a matter of measurement

Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2015

Cultural diversity - in various forms - has in recent years turned into a prominent and relevant research and policy issue. There is an avalanche of studies across many disciplines that measure and analyse cultural diversity and its impacts. Based on different perspectives and features of the...

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Segregation and fertility : the case of the Roma in Serbia

Battaglia, Marianna; Chabé-Ferret, Bastien; … - 2017

majority culture is the main mechanism at play, as opposed to differences in opportunity cost of time, migration patterns …

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Fostering, child welfare, and ethnic cultural values

El Badaoui, Eliane; Mangiavacchi, Lucia - 2018

This article examines the effects of fostering on children's labour supply and schooling in host families in Niger. The focus is on the causal role of ethnic inherited cultural values and behaviours in perpetuating fostering. In particular, at the ethnic group level, we rely on the inherited...

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