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We study the roots of violence against women, and propose that it partly originates in cultural norms that derive from (a) characteristics of the traditional subsistence problem in different societies, and (b) differences in the sexual division of labor for solving that problem in each society....
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services defines and refines us as humans. The economics of culture, notwithstanding its deeply rooted epistemological …
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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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This paper explores the role of the gender equality culture in cross-country gender commuting gap differences. To avoid … inter-relationships between culture, institutions, and economic conditions in a simple cross-country analysis, we adopt the … evidence of the existence of a cultural impact. Our results show that a culture with more gender equality in the country of …
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of strong persistence of culture among those with longer tenure in the host country, those who immigrated as children or …
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Despite the continued popularity of cross national culture research across social sciences, the use of multidimensional …
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Friedrich Froebel, a German pedagogue, established the first kindergarten worldwide in Thuringia in 1839. We study the spatial dissemination of the kindergarten movement in Germany in the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. Spatial dissemination can be explained by the cultural proximity,...
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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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culture in each field. In postcolonial theory, culture serves as a central analytical category. In economics, despite … increased attention in recent history, general approaches to culture continue to underestimate its role in economic behaviour … and decision making. Borrowing some insights from postcolonial theory, this paper calls for further attention to culture …
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