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Cultural Influences on the Fertility Behaviour of First- and Second-Generation Immigrants in Germany

Stichnoth, Holger; Yeter, Mustafa - 2013

fertility rates in the year of migration and a new measure of completed cohort fertility rates in the countries of origin as …Based on a 1% sample of the German population, we study how fertility rates in the country of origin — a proxy for … cultural imprint — influence the fertility outcomes of first- and second-generation female immigrants. We use both total …

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Multigenerational transmission of culture

Spiro, Daniel - 2019

This paper explores intergenerational transmission of culture and the consequences of a plausible assumption: that … people care not only for their children's culture but also for how their grand-children are raised. This departs from the … socialization, parents. discounting, social pressure and interaction between groups are derived. In equilibrium, parents behave more …

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Rules, Preferences and Evolution from the Family Angle

Cigno, Alessandro - 2021

This paper reviews the literature concerning the evolution of cultural traits in general and preferences in particular, and the emergence and persistence of rules or norms, from a family per-spective. In models where every new person is effectively the clone of an existing one (either a parent...

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Rules, preferences and evolution from the family angle

Cigno, Alessandro - 2021

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The impact of institutions, culture, and religion on per capita income

Dobler, Constanze - 2009

Despite many approaches of neoclassical and endogenous growth theory, economists still face problems in explaining the reasons for income differences between countries. Institutional economics and the deep determinants of growth literature try to depart from pure economic facts to examine...

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Family ties and political participation

Alesina, Alberto; Giuliano, Paola - 2009

We establish an inverse relationship between family ties, generalized trust and political participation. The more individuals rely on the family as a provider of services, insurance, transfer of resources, the lower is civic engagement and political participation. The latter, together with...

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Culture and cooperation

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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When the state mirrors the family: The design of pension systems

Galasso, Vincenzo; Profeta, Paola - 2010

This paper studies the transmission mechanism from family culture to economic institutions, by analyzing the impact of …

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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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