Using the 41-year division of Germany as a natural experiment, we show that the GDR's gender-equal institutions created …

gender gap in math is due to social stereotypes; (2) institutions can durably modify these stereotypes. …

Do legal institutions affect norms of cooperation? Using the introduction of the Code Napoleon during the Napoleonic … Wars in Germany as a historical experiment, I show that a positive shock to the quality of legal institutions can increase … be a potential mechanism for the relationship between legal institutions and social capital. …

We investigate the effects of political institutions on economic growth. We specifically explore this relationship … nonlinearities and/or interaction effects with respect to political institutions. We also implement a novel approach to account for …

indirect roles that political and economic institutions may play. A theoretical model of scientific production that integrates … the quality of institutions, as well as econometric estimations conducted on a panel of 47 African countries over the … period 1994 to 2009, suggest significant direct and indirect effects of institutions on scientific research performance. …

shadow economy, particularly considering the quality of institutions. The results show that higher levels of education fuel … the shadow economy in an environment of weak political institutions. …