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culture, a hallmark of Chinese cultural history, on the prevalence of child labor in China. We find that clan culture … driven by boys rather than girls, which reflects the patrilineal nature of Chinese clan culture. Moreover, the impact is … greater on boys from households with lower socioeconomic status, and in rural areas. Clan culture acts as a supplement to …
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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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researchers have not accounted for the role of race and ethnicity in identifying culture parameters. Moreover, the majority of … 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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When does culture persist and when does it change? We examine a determinant that has been put forth in the anthropology … beneficial in stable environments where the culture that has evolved up to the previous generation is more likely to be relevant …
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of strong persistence of culture among those with longer tenure in the host country, those who immigrated as children or … young adults, and second-generation immigrants suggests that vertical transmission of beliefs (from parents to children) is …
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This paper reviews the literature on gender and culture. Gender gaps in various outcomes (competitiveness, labor force ….This article reviews the literature on the relevance of culture in the determination of different forms of gender gap. I examine …
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This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women … the effect of culture from that of social capital. These results support a growing literature that suggests that culture …
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the channel of gains from specialization. Our paper provides evidence of a link between an organization's culture … – specifically the trust environment – and its internal structure. We show experimentally that exogenously imposed culture … generalized trust and growth. It also points to an important determinant of a firm's internal structure: corporate culture (of …
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" (Croson and Gneezy, 2009). According to the second one, the institutional culture and the role women have in society are key … western country with a matrilineal culture, introducing – at the same time - social influence in the design. We find more …
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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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