; ; ; "ActiveFedora::Aggregation::ListSource" . a , ; "Culture: An Empirical Investigation of Beliefs, Work, and Fertility"; ; "batchuser@example.com"; "Fernandez, Raquel, 1959-", "Fogli, Alessandra"; "Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis"; "Family", "Female labor force participation", "Immigrants", "Fertility", "Neighborhoods", "Networks", "Cultural transmission"; "J16 - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination", "Z13 - Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification", "J13 - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth", "J22 - Time Allocation and Labor Supply", "J24 - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity"; "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."^^; "2005-04"; "2019-06-21T16:14:31.473804002+00:00"^^; "https://doi.org/10.21034/sr.361"; ; "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/"; "Thu Nov 7 21:47:32 2019"; "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/"; "Research Paper"; "245", "233"; "Staff report (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Research Department)"; "361"; "Female labor force participation", "Family", "Cultural transmission", "Neighborhoods", "Networks", "Fertility", "Immigrants"; ; ; ; ; "Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Research Department"; "Published in: _American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics_ (Vol. 1, No. 1, January 2009, pp. 146-177) https://doi.org/10.1257/mac.1.1.146. "^^; ; "Publication" . ; .