Culture
Subtitle: an empirical investigation of beliefs, work, and fertility
By: Raquel Fernandez and Alessandra Fogli.
Contributors: Fogli, Alessandra.
Series: Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Research Department staff report ;; 361; Staff report (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Research Dept. : Online) ;; 361.
Publisher: Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Published: 2005
Place of publication: [Minneapolis, Minn.]
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Women -- Employment -- United States; Fertility, Human -- United States; Children of immigrants -- United States; Culture -- Economic aspects
Description: "We study the effect of culture on important economic outcomes by using the 1970 census to examine the work and fertility behavior of women born in the U.S. but whose parents were born elsewhere.We use past female labor force participation and total fertility rates from the country of ancestry as our cultural proxies.These variables should capture, in addition to past economic and institutional conditions, the beliefs commonly held about the role of women in society (i.e., culture).Given the different time and place, only the beliefs embodied in the cultural proxies should be potentially relevant.We show that these cultural proxies have positive and significant explanatory power for individual work and fertility outcomes, even after controlling for possible indirect effects of culture.We examine alternative hypotheses for these positive correlations and show that neither unobserved human capital nor networks are likely to be responsible"--Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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