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This investigation quantifies the levels of cultural tightness and looseness prevalent in European societies, focusing … tightness-looseness. In contrast to previous cross-country studies, we harness regional data to acknowledge the intrinsic …-dimensional aspects of cultural tightness and looseness. …
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-ecosystemic to an ecosystemic model of culture. …
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socio-cultural learning niches. Problems related to education, culture, ethics, physical, social and mental well …. Values, goals, and principles are considered in the transition from a non-ecosystemic to an ecosystemic model of culture. The …
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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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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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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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of strong persistence of culture among those with longer tenure in the host country, those who immigrated as children or …
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What is the long run impact on development from differences in subsistence strategies during pre-industrial times? Whereas this question has been explored from the point of view of agriculture, remarkably little attention has been paid to the complementary strategy of relying on marine...
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This research explores the effects of culture on technological diffusion and economic development. It shows that … culture's direct effects on development and barrier effects to technological diffusion are, in general, observationally … culture, while lending credence to the idea that common ancestry generates persistence and plays a central role in economic …
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In this paper, we explore the long-run effects of cultural and imperial legacies in the Baltic region. Drawing evidence from the 1897 population census in the Russian Empire, we find that localities with a higher share of German historical population are inclined to be more developed in...
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