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 survey the literature on venture capital and institutions and present a case study comparing the development of the …

is enormous: billionaires. We explore the relationship between economic development, institutions, and these contrasting … kinds of entrepreneurs. We find that the institutions consistent with self-employed entrepreneurs di¤er markedly from the … ones consistent with billionaires. Further, only the latter are consistent with the institutions that underlie economic …

Previous research, notably Baumol (1990), has highlighted the role of insti-tutions in channeling entrepreneurial … institutions—entrepreneurs often help shape institutions themselves. The bilateral causal relation between entrepreneurs and … institutions is examined in this paper. Entrepreneurs affect institutions in at least three ways. Entrepreneurship abiding by …