
What Did Acemoglu Get Wrong?
ROCKING OUR PRIORS
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Immigrants in the United States
Female labor force participation or fertility persists just like their mother's generation. Moslem women in britain are systematically less likely to work, and that's even controlling for human capital. In the uk, 74 % of british women work. 69 % hindoo women work, 39 % of bangdadesi and paclistane women work. The gap is huge, even with very similar economic opportunities. W, no, that's not about institutions, because it's just culture. It's just socialization. So you say religious authoritarianism intrenches these patriarchal institutions because it prohibits a flourishing social democracy. But i am not completely comfortable interpreting that as pure culture.
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