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

comparative development and culture. First, we introduce and describe a unique catalogue of folklore that codes the presence of … affluent society, the culture of honor among pastoralists, the role of family in extended kinship systems and the intensity of …

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 …

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

While both cultural and legal norms (institutions) help foster cooperation, culture is the more primitive of the two … and itself sustains formal institutions. Cultural changes are rarer and slower than changes in legal institutions, which … makes it difficult to identify the role played by culture. Cultural changes and their effects are easier to identify in …

cultural stereotypes at the bank level, we show that corporate culture at bank headquarters is influenced by foreign …. We therefore leverage the geography of multinational bank branch networks to construct a bank-specific measure of culture …