), material or other explicit incentives (laws) and social sanctions or rewards (norms). It first examines how honor, stigma and … social norms arise from individuals’ behaviors and inferences, and how they interact with material incentives. It then … also what shapes social judgements and moral sentiments. Setting law thus means both imposing material incentives and …

This paper studies the effect of changes in foreign competition on the incentives faced by U.S. managers in the form of …

cultural identities and reduces the consumption of culture-specific goods and services. We show that the two groups segregate …

We construct a model of revolution and transition to democracy under an individualistic and a collectivist culture. The … culture are more likely to end up adopting democracy faster than countries with a collectivist culture. Our instrumental … variable estimation suggests a strong and robust effect of individualistic culture on average polity scores and length of …

This paper makes three contributions to the growing literature on culture and economics. Using answers to the World … cultural distance; (iii) trade openness has a lock-in effect on culture. Third, we test the model using an instrumental …

analysis improves upon existing studies of the role of "culture" for labor market outcomes by dealing explicitly with the … do all this we find that culture still matters for women employment rates and for hours worked. However, policies and …