This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women's behavior in the United States-looking both over time with immigrants' residence in the United States and across immigrant generations. It focuses particularly on labor supply...

Why are there such large differences in living arrangements across Western European countries? Conventional economic analyses have not been successful in explaining differences in living arrangements and particularly the dramatic increase in the fraction of young adults living with their parents...

Auf die Valorisierung, also die gesellschaftliche Wertgebung einer neuen Technologie, haben Valorisierungsakteure einen wesentlichen Einfluss. Diese Akteure entwickeln spezifische Valorisierungspraktiken, die darauf gerichtet sind, der neuen Technologie einen gesellschaftlichen Wert zu...

This paper explores the role of culture in determining divorce decisions by examining country of origin differences in divorce rates of immigrants in the United States. Because childhood-arriving immigrants are all exposed to a common set of US laws and institutions, we interpret relationships...