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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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substantial within-country volatility. This volatility is at odds with the notion of culture adopted in economics: a set of slow … interactions. The insufficient persistence of survey proxies for such traits may compromise empirical studies of culture as a …
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We discuss the two-way link between culture and economic growth. We present a model of endogenous technical change … British Industrial Revolution. We also discuss empirical studies documenting the importance of culture and preference …
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We investigate the role of culture in explaining economic outcomes at individual level analyzing how cultural values … labor market is affected both by the culture of females' and by their husband's origin countries. We also show that the …
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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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a culture that has undone the male breadwinner norm and its consequences. Since reunification, East Germany still …
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In this paper we look at the relationship between health and income as mediated by "lifestyle" choices; that is, a set … adequate to deal with the type of lifestyle consumption goods considered here. We indicate the lines along which a model needs …
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Using several waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), this study analyzes the effect of long work hours on health and lifestyles in a sample of 18- to 65-year-old Chinese workers. Although working long hours does significantly increase the probabilities of high blood pressure and...
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We use the high IQ Terman sample to estimate relationships between education, socioemotional skills, and health-related outcomes that include health behaviors, lifestyles, and health measures across the lifecycle. By both focusing on a high IQ sample and controlling for IQ in regression models,...
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city-wide cohort of preschool children - the Shanghai Children's Health, Education and Lifestyle Evaluation, Preschool …
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