Acculturation, Education, and Gender Roles: Evidence from Canada

Anke Kessler and Kevin Milligan

VfS Annual Conference 2017 (Vienna): Alternative Structures for Money and Banking from Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association

Abstract: This paper studies the influence of cultural norms on economic outcomes. We combine detailed information on second-generation female immigrants with historical data from their ancestral source country to see how the cultural endowment received from their fathers affects current decisions. Our results show that education plays a critical role in cultural transmission: lower-educated women exhibit a strong influence of cultural variables while higher-educated women show no influence at all.

JEL-codes: J16 J22 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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Journal Article: Acculturation, education, and gender roles: evidence from Canada (2021)
Working Paper: Acculturation, Education, and Gender Roles: Evidence from Canada (2019)
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