Department of Economics, University of Connecticut, 365 Fairfield Way, Unit 1063, Storrs, CT 06269-1063, USA.
Demography. 2013 Jun;50(3):1013-38. doi: 10.1007/s13524-012-0180-2.
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.
本文通过考察移民在美国的原籍国离婚率的差异，探讨了文化在决定离婚方面的作用。由于童年时期抵达的移民都受到一套共同的美国法律和制度的影响，我们将他们的离婚倾向与原籍国离婚率之间的关系解释为文化影响的证据。我们的结果在控制了几个原籍国变量后仍然稳健，包括平均教堂出席率和国内生产总值（GDP）。此外，具有原籍国固定效应的规格表明，如果低离婚率国家的移民居住在大量同族人群中，他们离婚的可能性就特别小。补充分析表明，离婚文化对女性离婚决定的影响大于对男性的影响，这表明离婚禁忌可能具有潜在的性别特征。
