Societies socialize children about many things, including sex. Socialization is costly. It uses scarce resources, such … states to inculcate sexual mores. Technology affects culture. …

Societies socialize children about many things, including sex. Socialization is costly. It uses scarce resources, such … states to inculcate sexual mores. Technology affects culture. …

-of-origin composition of a county matters. Moreover, the culture, institutions, and human capital that the immigrant groups brought with … them and pass on to their children are positively associated with local development in the US. Among these factors …, measures of culture that capture attitudes towards cooperation play the most important and robust role. Finally, our results …

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. …

We use micro data from the European Social Survey to investigate the impact of "culture of leisure" and taxes on labor … attributes of the country of residence and country of ancestry. The results show that for women, both taxes and culture of … margins, but culture of leisure has no impact. …

This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women … to distinguish the effect of culture from that of social capital. These results support a growing literature that … suggests that culture matters for economic behavior. At the same time, the results suggest considerable evidence of …

Some immigrants try to keep their ethnicity hidden while others become ever deeply more mired in their home culture. We …