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Is Smoking Behavior Culturally Determined? Evidence from British Immigrants
Christopoulou, Rebekka; Lillard, Dean R. - 2013
We exploit migration patterns from the UK to Australia, South Africa, and the US to investigate whether a person's decision to smoke is determined by culture. For each country, we use retrospective data to describe individual smoking trajectories over the life-course. For the UK, we use these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014160231
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Is smoking behavior culturally determined? : evidence from British immigrants
Christopoulou, Rebekka; Lillard, Dean R. - 2013
We exploit migration patterns from the UK to Australia, South Africa, and the US to investigate whether a person's decision to smoke is determined by culture. For each country, we use retrospective data to describe individual smoking trajectories over the life-course. For the UK, we use these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009696931
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Do Emigrants Self-Select Along Cultural Traits? Evidence from the MENA Countries
Docquier, Frédéric - 2018
religiosity and gender-egalitarian attitudes. To do so, we use Gallup World Poll data on individual opinions and beliefs … also share more gender-egalitarian views, although the effect only holds among the young (aged 15 to 30), among single …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012929247
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Do Emigrants Self-Select Along Cultural Traits? Evidence from the MENA Countries
Docquier, Frédéric - 2017
religiosity and gender-egalitarian attitudes. To do so, we use Gallup World Poll data on individual opinions and beliefs ….They also share more gender-egalitarian views, although the effect only holds among the young (aged 15 to 30), among single …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012942048
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Do Emigrants Self-Select Along Cultural Traits? : Evidence from the MENA Countries
Docquier, Frédéric - 2017
religiosity and gender-egalitarian attitudes. To do so, we use Gallup World Poll data on individual opinions and beliefs … also share more gender-egalitarian views, although the effect only holds among the young (aged 15 to 30), among single …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012943279
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The well-being costs of immigration in Europe
O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2025
The immigrant population increased by 32 million in 37 European countries from 1990-2019. Much of this movement was internal, from east to west Europe. Although both the destination and origin countries could be affected, we find no effects on aggregate subjective well-being in either group,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015358600
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Effects of emigration on gender norms in countries of origin
Azarnert, Leonid V.; Yakubenko, Slava - 2021
This paper studies the effect of emigration on gender norms in countries of migrants' origin. We use an instrumental … variable strategy that allows us to estimate a causal effect of emigration on gender inequality. Our findings suggest that … emigration to countries with low (high) levels of gender inequality is associated with promotion of more (less) progressive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012694149
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International sanctions and emigration
Gutmann, Jerg; Langer, Pascal; Neuenkirch, Matthias - 2023 - This version: January 5, 2024
results do not support systematic gender differences in the effect of sanctions on migration. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014432273
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Effects of Emigration on Gender Norms in Countries of Origin
Azarnert, Leonid V.; Yakubenko, Slava - 2021
This paper studies the effect of emigration on gender norms in countries of migrants’ origin. We use an instrumental … variable strategy that allows us to estimate a causal effect of emigration on gender inequality. Our findings suggest that … emigration to countries with low (high) levels of gender inequality is associated with promotion of more (less) progressive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013312071
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International sanctions and emigration
Gutmann, Jerg; Langer, Pascal; Neuenkirch, Matthias - 2024 - This Version: January 5, 2024
. Finally, our results do not support systematic gender differences in the effect of sanctions on migration. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014446598