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Gächter, Simon; Herrmann, Benedikt; Thöni, Christian - 2010

cultural background relative to individual heterogeneity and group-level differences in cooperation. We find that culture has a …

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Linguistic Traits and Human Capital Formation

Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer; Sarid, Assaf - 2020

This research establishes the influence of linguistic traits on human behavior. Exploiting variations in the languages spoken by children of migrants with identical ancestral countries of origin, the analysis indicates that the presence of periphrastic future tense, and its association with...

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Economic Production and the Spread of Supernatural Beliefs

Araújo, Daniel; Carrillo, Bladimir; Sampaio, Breno - 2021

Religion and beliefs in the supernatural are present in all societies. Yet, studies about the spread of small-scale supernatural belief systems remain quite limited. In this work, we test the anthropological hypothesis that historical dependence on pastoralism favored the adoption of customs...

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Cultural Values and Decision to Work of Immigrant Women in Italy

Scoppa, Vincenzo; Stranges, Manuela - 2014

We investigate the role of culture in explaining economic outcomes at individual level analyzing how cultural values … labor market is affected both by the culture of females' and by their husband's origin countries. We also show that the …

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Immigrant fertility in Germany: The role of culture

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2014

This paper focuses on the role of home country's fertility culture in shaping immigrants' fertility. I use the German … of fertility differentials between immigrants and German natives. The results suggest that home country's culture affects …

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Do immigrants follow their home country's fertility norms?

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2013

between immigrants and German natives. The results suggest that home country's culture affects immigrants' long-run outcomes …

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Working or stay-at-home mum? The influence of family benefits and religiosity

Jäger, Ulrike - 2010

It is a well-established fact that mothers' labour force participation reacts differently todifferent types of family benefits. It is also already well-known that cultural and religiousfactors have an impact on their labour force participation. But does the labour forcereaction to family...

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Economic discrimination and cultural differences as barriers to migrant integration: Is reverse causality symmetric?

Kohler, Pierre - 2012

This paper examines the endogenous relationship between the economic and cultural integration of migrants in Switzerland or, more precisely, how economic and cultural barriers to integration reinforce each other. Are cultural differences preventing the successful integration of migrants or does...

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The effect of host society culture on migrant wage discrimination: Approaching the Roestigraben

Kohler, Pierre - 2012

This paper investigates whether host society culture affects migrant wage discrimination, i.e. whether migrant wage … discrimination is more intense in host societies where culture is more inward-looking. The motivation for this investigation in the … culture is one of the determinants explaining differences in migrant wage discrimination across the language border. Results …

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Education, gender, religion, politics: What priorities for cultural integration policies in Switzerland?

Kohler, Pierre - 2012

This paper explores cultural integration paths of eight migrant groups in Switzerland. It specifically analyzes the evolution of objective behaviors and subjective attitudes of migrants from the first to the second generation. In order to deepen the analysis, the cultural integration of migrants...

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