particular, can culture constrain caloric intake and contribute to malnutrition? To answer this question, I first document that … inter-state migrants within India consume fewer calories per Rupee of food expenditure compared to their non … on culture: that migrants make nutritionally-suboptimal food choices due to cultural preferences for the traditional …

by culture and social norms by examining their saving and bequest behavior. To summarize our main findings, we find that … the Japanese are not a saving-loving people and that their saving behavior is not governed by culture and social norms …, we argue that these findings do not necessarily mean that culture and social norms do not matter. …

We highlight a new factor behind integration: tolerance in the immigrants' background culture. We hypothesize that it … is easier to partake of economic, civic-political, and social life in a new country for a person stemming from a culture … from the European Social Survey. The results indicate that tolerance in the background culture is a robust predictor of …