culture: an empirical investigation of beliefs, work, and fertility. a verification and reproduction of fernández and fogli (american economic journal: macroeconomics, 2009)

These data and code reproduce the results presented in the paper "Culture: An Empirical Investigation of Beliefs, Work, and Fertility A Verification and Reproduction of Fernández and Fogli (2009)." by Victor Gay, published in: Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics, Volume 2, 2023-2.

Abstract: In this article, I perform a verification and a reproduction of the main results in Fernández and Fogli (2009), which estimates the role of culture in explaining the labor and fertility decisions of second generation immigrant women to the United States in 1970. While I am able to verify Fernández and Fogli’s (2009) main results as well as their robustness relative to both labor and fertility decisions, I am unable to reproduce them relative to labor decisions in alternative samples drawn from the same underlying population.

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Gay, Victor (2023): Culture: An Empirical Investigation of Beliefs, Work, and Fertility. A Verification and Reproduction of Fernández and Fogli (American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2009). Version: 1. JCRE. Dataset. http://dx.doi.org/10.15456/j1.2022252.0530923662

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