Money v.s. prestige: Cultural attitudes and occupational choices

Zhan, Crystal

doi:10.1016/j.labeco.2014.12.003

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“…None of the other odds ratios are statistically significantly different for women and men. 25 In a related finding, Zhan (2015) shows that cultural background affects the importance of occupational prestige and pecuniary rewards for occupational choices of men in the U.S.…”

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Occupational Prestige and the Gender Wage Gap

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Section: The Origins Of Gender Differences In Preferences For Prementioning

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Occupational Prestige and the Gender Wage Gap

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“…In a similar approach, Algan and Cahuc () find that trust can be transmitted across generations and has significant influence on national income. Zhan () shows that cultural attitudes towards monetary reward and prestige can affect occupation choice.…”

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Cultural Influence on Preferences and Attitudes for Environmental Quality

Kountouris¹,

Remoundou²

2016

Kyklos

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This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Wiley via http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/kykl.12114We investigate national culture's influence on preferences for and attitudes to environmental quality. We use the cultural diversity of immigrants in European countries to isolate the effect of culture from the confounding effect of the economic and institutional environment. Results suggest that culture is a significant determinant of migrants' individual environmental preferences and attitudes. Migrants from countries with higher levels of environmental preferences are more willing to trade off income for environmental quality when controlling for individual characteristics, country of residence, and country of origin macroeconomic and environmental conditions. Furthermore, culture significantly influences individual beliefs about limits to growth, the fragility of the balance of nature, and the likelihood of an ecological crisis. The result is robust to alternative definitions of the cultural proxy and points to the significance of accounting for cultural influences in the design of domestic and international environmental policy and the application of environmental valuation techniques.Peer reviewe

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“…Finally, health care and welfare reforms may disproportionally affect immigrants' insurance coverage (Bitler and Hoynes 2011;Borjas 2001Borjas , 2003Bronchetti, 2014). 5 The outcomes analyzed include educational attainment (Blau et al, 2013), work orientations (Blau et al, 2011), fertility (Blau et al, 2013;Fernández & Fogli, 2009), occupational choices (Zhan 2015(Zhan , 2021, financial behaviors (Osili & Paulson, 2008), and living arrangements (Giuliano, 2007). 6 As a robustness check, we also replicate our analysis restricting the sample period to 2001 through 2010, before the enactment of the ACA, and obtain similar findings.…”

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The determinants of immigrant health insurance in the United States: Understanding the role of health care in origin societies

Amuedo‐Dorantes

Zhan

2021

Health Economics

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We examine how immigrants' health insurance in the United States is shaped by institutional traits of the health care systems in their origin societies. Conditional on a wide range of individual, country-of-origin, state-level, and temporal controls, we find the affordability of health care back home helps explain immigrants' US health coverage. Specifically, low-and middle-income migrants from countries with less affordable health care are more likely to get private insurance once in the United States and, correspondingly, less likely to have public coverage, relative to migrants from countries with more affordable care. The relationship conforms to multiple hypotheses. As predicted by the institutional beliefs hypothesis, migrants from countries with less affordable care might anticipate equally expensive health services in the United States and, in turn, insure themselves against high medical bills. Likewise, as predicted by the endogenous preferences hypothesis, migrants from countries with less affordable care might be accustomed to paying more for health care and, in turn, be less reluctant to pay for private health insurance. Overall, the findings underscore the relevance of migrants' past health care experiences in their origin societies in informing their health insurance in the United States even years after migration.

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Money v.s. prestige: Cultural attitudes and occupational choices

Cited by 21 publications

References 32 publications

Occupational Prestige and the Gender Wage Gap

Occupational Prestige and the Gender Wage Gap

Cultural Influence on Preferences and Attitudes for Environmental Quality

The determinants of immigrant health insurance in the United States: Understanding the role of health care in origin societies

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