| Title |
Does Culture Affect Divorce? Evidence From European Immigrants in the United States
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Demography, January 2013
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| DOI | 10.1007/s13524-012-0180-2 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Delia Furtado, Miriam Marcén, Almudena Sevilla |
| Abstract |
This article explores the role of culture in determining divorce by examining country-of-origin differences in divorce rates of immigrants in the United States. Because childhood-arriving immigrants are all exposed to a common set of U.S. laws and institutions, we interpret relationships between their divorce tendencies and home-country divorce rates as evidence of the effect of culture. Our results are robust to controlling for several home-country variables, including average church attendance and gross domestic product (GDP). Moreover, specifications with country-of-origin fixed effects suggest that immigrants from countries with low divorce rates are especially less likely to be divorced if they reside among a large number of coethnics. Supplemental analyses indicate that divorce culture has a stronger impact on the divorce decisions of females than of males, pointing to a potentially gendered nature of divorce taboos. |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| United States | 2 | 50% |
| Unknown | 2 | 50% |
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| Type | Count | As % |
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| Members of the public | 2 | 50% |
| Scientists | 2 | 50% |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 106 | 99% |
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| Student > Ph. D. Student | 19 | 18% |
| Researcher | 13 | 12% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 11 | 10% |
| Student > Bachelor | 9 | 8% |
| Student > Master | 9 | 8% |
| Other | 17 | 16% |
| Unknown | 29 | 27% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences | 35 | 33% |
| Psychology | 11 | 10% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 9 | 8% |
| Arts and Humanities | 4 | 4% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 4 | 4% |
| Other | 8 | 7% |
| Unknown | 36 | 34% |
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