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Culture and the cross-country differences in the gender commuting gap : evidence from immigrants in the United States
Marcén, Miriam; Morales, Marina - 2021
This paper explores the role of the gender equality culture in cross-country gender commuting gap differences. To avoid … inter-relationships between culture, institutions, and economic conditions in a simple cross-country analysis, we adopt the … evidence of the existence of a cultural impact. Our results show that a culture with more gender equality in the country of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497183
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Reconciling the individual and societal level in comparative cultural analysis : an archetypal analysis of values and norms across 76 countries
Wit, Juliette de; Beugelsdijk, Sjoerd - 2024
Despite the continued popularity of cross national culture research across social sciences, the use of multidimensional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015071572
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Expanding the measurement of culture with a sample of two billion humans
Obradovich, Nick; Özak, Ömer; Martín, Ignacio; … - 2022
Culture has played a pivotal role in human evolution. Yet, the ability of social scientists to study culture is limited … by the currently available measurement instruments. Scholars of culture must regularly choose between scalable but sparse … can advance the study of human culture by providing quantitative, scalable, and high-resolution measurement of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013164507
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Coronagraben in Switzerland : culture and social distancing in times of COVID-19
Deopa, Neha; Fortunato, Piergiuseppe - 2021
Social distancing measures help contain the spread of COVID-19 but the actual compliance has varied substantially across space and time. We ask whether cultural differences underlie this heterogeneity using mobility data across Switzerland between February and December 2020. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012549091
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Cultural norms and women's health : implications of the practice of menstrual restrictions in Nepal
Kumar, Rahul; Maity, Bipasha - 2021
We study the association between the ritual of menstrual restrictions and maternal health- care access as well as women's subjective well-being. Similar restrictions, also practised around the time of childbirth, are based on the assumption that women are ritually impure during these phases of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599564
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Identity and labor market outcomes of immigrants
Carillo, Maria R.; Lombardo, Vincenzo; Venittelli, Tiziana - 2021
host and home country have higher employment rates, while those who exclusively identify with the host country culture do …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012392708
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Bitter sugar : slavery and the black family
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2020
We empirically assess the effect of historical slavery on the African American family structure. Our hypothesis is that female single headship among blacks is more likely to emerge in association not with slavery per se, but with slavery in sugar plantations, since the extreme demographic and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012222157
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Expanding the measurement of culture with a sample of two billion humans
Obradovich, Nick; Özak, Ömer; Martín, Ignacio; … - 2020
Culture has played a pivotal role in human evolution. Yet, the ability of social scientists to study culture is limited … by the currently available measurement instruments. Scholars of culture must regularly choose between scalable but sparse … can advance the study of human culture by providing quantitative, scalable, and high-resolution measurement of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012306222
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Irrigation and culture : gender roles and women's rights
Fredriksson, Per; Gupta, Satyendra Kumar - 2020
autocracy and a culture of collectivism. These are both associated with weaker female property rights. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012297216
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Paradise postponed : future tense and religiosity
Mavisakalyan, Astghik; Tarverdi, Yashar; Weber, Clas - 2020
This paper identifies a new source of differences in religiosity: the presence of future tense marking in language. We argue that the rewards and punishments that incentivise religious behaviour are less effective for speakers of languages that contain future tense marking. Consistent with this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012181116