doi:10.1007/s13524-012-0180-2engFurtado, D.Marcén, M.Sevilla, A.Does Culture Affect Divorce? Evidence From European Immigrants in the United StatesART-2013-81754This 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.2013http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/13226110.1007/s13524-012-0180-2http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/132261oai:zaguan.unizar.es:132261DEMOGRAPHY 50, 3 (2013), 1013-1038All rights reservedhttp://www.europeana.eu/rights/rr-f/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess