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...

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...

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...

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...

Taylor's neutral account of U.S. gun culture never loses sight of the fact that guns are all around us. With millions of guns and gun owners, it is imperative that policy and future research pertaining to guns consider the relative cultural and symbolic value that gun owners place on their guns....

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...

A "people's war" and the dawn an "American century" -- Containing communism, advancing "the American system" -- Affluence and angst : the politics and culture of Cold War America -- Through the looking glass : discontent and rebellion in the fifties -- Let us begin : the promise of the early...

This paper analyzes the impact of confidentiality of taxpayer information on the level of compliance in two countries with very different levels of citizen trust in government – the United States and Italy. Using identical laboratory experiments conducted in the two countries, we analyze the...