Does culture matter?
By: Raquel Fernández
Contributors: National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 16277; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 16277.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "This paper reviews the literature on culture and economics, focusing primarily on the epidemiological approach.  The epidemiological approach studies the variation in outcomes across different immigrant groups residing in the same country.  Immigrants presumably differ in their cultures but share a common institutional and economic environment.  This allows one to separate the effect of culture from the original economic and institutional environment.  This approach has been used to study a variety of issues, including female labor force participaiton, fertility, labor market regulation, redistribution, growth, and financial development among others"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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