provide an explanation of why small countries sometimes exclude certain goods (especially those related to culture) from trade …

substantial within-country volatility. This volatility is at odds with the notion of culture adopted in economics: a set of slow … interactions. The insufficient persistence of survey proxies for such traits may compromise empirical studies of culture as a …

researchers have not accounted for the role of race and ethnicity in identifying culture parameters. Moreover, the majority of … cultural norms and female labor supply. For non-Hispanic Whites, the impact of culture is explained by variation in country … of labor supply are local culture and social capital measures. …

This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women … to distinguish the effect of culture from that of social capital. These results support a growing literature that … suggests that culture matters for economic behavior. At the same time, the results suggest considerable evidence of …

This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women …