Purpose: The purpose of the paper is to examine how much difference in income can be explained by familial culture that persists in different societies. Design/methodology/approach: We employ a two-step methodology to evaluate the impact of familial culture on income across countries. In the...

We employ a two-step methodology to evaluate the impact of national familial culture on economic growth across countries. The composite measures of familial culture are created from three variables – the importance of family, perceived respect and love for parents, and perception of parents’...