institutional environment. In this paper, we address these issues by modeling the joint evolution of institutions and culture. In …

business formation is positively related to historical attributes that presage individualist culture: frontier experience and …

historical economic development. A notion of culture as heuristics or rules-of-thumb that aid in decision making is described … costs and benefits of different traits. A number of empirical studies confirm that culture is an important mechanism that …

This paper proposes a new framework for studying the interplay between culture and institutions. We follow the recent … sociology literature and interpret culture as a \repertoire", which allows rich cultural responses to changes in the environment … and shifts in political power. Specifically, we start with a culture set, which consists of attributes and the feasible …

This paper reviews the literature on gender and culture. Gender gaps in various outcomes (competitiveness, labor force … article reviews the literature on the relevance of culture in the determination of different forms of gender gap. I examine …

Can some acts of violence be explained by a society's "culture"? Scholars have found it hard to empirically disentangle … the effects of culture, legal institutions, and poverty in driving violence. We address this problem by exploiting a …

previously thought. Persistence is also culture specific, in the sense that the country of origin of one's ancestors matters for …