| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w11268 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 11268 |
| Culture: An Empirical Investigation of Beliefs, Work, and Fertility | |
| Raquel Fernandez; Alessandra Fogli | |
| 发表日期 | 2005-04-18 |
| 出版年 | 2005 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We study the effect of culture on important economic outcomes by using the 1970 Census to examine the work and fertility behavior of women 30-40 years old, 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 to women's behavior in the US in 1970. 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 (e.g., education and spousal characteristics). We examine alternative hypotheses for these positive correlations and show that neither unobserved human capital nor networks are likely to be responsible. We also show that the effect of these cultural proxies is amplified the greater is the tendency for ethnic groups to cluster in the same neighborhoods. |
| 主题 | Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging ; Labor Supply and Demand ; Other ; Culture |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w11268 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/568905 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Raquel Fernandez,Alessandra Fogli. Culture: An Empirical Investigation of Beliefs, Work, and Fertility. 2005. |
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