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Bride price, which is payment from the groom and/or the groom's family to the bride's family at the time of marriage, is a common cultural practice in many African societies. It is often argued that the practice may have negative effects for girls and women because it may: incentivize early...
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a conflict; (ii) differences in other dimensions of culture unrelated to gender do not explain conflict-related sexual …
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Ethnically diverse countries are more prone to conflict, but why do some groups engage in conflict while others do not? I show that civil conflict is explained by ethnic groups' cultural distance to the central government: an increase in cultural distance, proxied by linguistic distance,...
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Despite the continued popularity of cross national culture research across social sciences, the use of multidimensional …
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Do institutions and culture affect environmental values? In this article we analyze 1,041 environmental valuations of … 223 wetlands in 38 developing countries, to examine the effect of institutions and culture on environmental values. We … wetland valuations. Understanding these important and varying effects of institutions and culture on wetland valuations is …
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Cultural diversity - in various forms - has in recent years turned into a prominent and relevant research and policy issue. There is an avalanche of studies across many disciplines that measure and analyse cultural diversity and its impacts. Based on different perspectives and features of the...
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This paper focuses on the role of home country's fertility culture in shaping immigrants' fertility. I use the German … of fertility differentials between immigrants and German natives. The results suggest that home country's culture affects …
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in Hungary, this paper examines how culture influences environmentally conscious behaviour. Having investigated the … direct impact of Hofstede's cultural dimensions on pro-environmental behaviour, we found that the culture of a country hardly … culture is a necessary but not sufficient condition for making a country greener …
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This paper reviews recent economics literature on culture, with an emphasis on its relation to the field of long …-run growth and development. It examines the key issues debated in the new cultural economics: causal effects of culture on … economic outcomes, the origins and social costs of culture, as well as cultural transmission, persistence, and change. Some of …
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cultural background relative to individual heterogeneity and group-level differences in cooperation. We find that culture has a …
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