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Fishermen's wives : on the cultural origins of violence against women
Leyaro, Vincent; Selaya, Pablo; Trifkovic, Neda - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2017
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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Bride price and the wellbeing of women
Lowes, Sara; Nunn, Nathan - 2017
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943734
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Bride price and the wellbeing of women
Lowes, Sara; Nunn, Nathan - 2017
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011659586
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Capturing Fugitive Resources in a Globalized Economy: The Case of Marine Aquaculture in Hawai`i
Suryanata, Krisna; Umemoto, Karen - 2001
"Technological development in breeding and growing Pacific threadfin (mo`i) in open-ocean cages has opened up the possibility of a new growth industry for Hawai`i. However, two types of challenges must be overcome before this potential could be realized. First, the issues of equity and...
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Cultural distance and conflict-related sexual violence
Guarnieri, Eleonora; Tur-Prats, Ana - 2020
a conflict; (ii) differences in other dimensions of culture unrelated to gender do not explain conflict-related sexual …
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Cultural distance and ethnic civil conflict
Guarnieri, Eleonora - 2023
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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Culture and the spatial dissemination of ideas evidence from Froebel's kindergarten movement : conference paper
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver - 2013 - This version: January 2013
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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Culture and the cross-country differences in the gender commuting gap : evidence from immigrants in the United States
Marcén, Miriam; Morales, Marina - 2021
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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Mortgage finance and culture
Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2018
of strong persistence of culture among those with longer tenure in the host country, those who immigrated as children or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011796425
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Reconciling the individual and societal level in comparative cultural analysis : an archetypal analysis of values and norms across 76 countries
Wit, Juliette de; Beugelsdijk, Sjoerd - 2024
Despite the continued popularity of cross national culture research across social sciences, the use of multidimensional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015071572