Social norms surrounding sexuality, pregnancy, and childbearing may help guide women's health-related behaviors. In this study, we explore low-income women's perceptions of fertility-related norms by allowing women to describe their experiences with normative expectations. Semistructured interviews (n = 30) suggested that women in low-income subject positions articulate descriptive norms that g...

In countries where social insurance is generous, individuals endorse relatively weak work norms; however, weaker work norms are not associated with worse economic performance, neither at the country level nor at the individual level. I develop a model of endogenous work norms that rationalizes that evidence. Weak work norms do not harm labor productivity because they improve the allocation of i...

Identifying specific aspects of peer social norms that influence adolescent substance use may assist international prevention efforts. This study examines two aggregated measures of social norms in the school setting and their predictive association with substance (alcohol, tobacco and marijuana) use 2 years later in a large cross-national population-based cohort of adolescents. The primary hyp...