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 |
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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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United States | 2 | 50% |
Unknown | 2 | 50% |
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Members of the public | 2 | 50% |
Scientists | 2 | 50% |
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Spain | 1 | <1% |
Unknown | 106 | 99% |
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Researcher | 13 | 12% |
Student > Doctoral Student | 11 | 10% |
Student > Bachelor | 9 | 8% |
Student > Master | 9 | 8% |
Other | 17 | 16% |
Unknown | 29 | 27% |
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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% |