This paper reviews the literature on gender and culture. Gender gaps in various outcomes (competitiveness, labor force … the level of development, women's education, the expansion of the service sector, and discrimination. More recent … 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 …

While both cultural and legal norms (institutions) help foster cooperation, culture is the more primitive of the two … makes it difficult to identify the role played by culture. Cultural changes and their effects are easier to identify in … simpler, more controlled, environments, such as corporations. Corporate culture, thus, is not only interesting per se, but …

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 …

-interest, knowledge, and ideology in public opinion formation? And how do people learn about economic issues? Using a new, specially … insurance), ideology is the most important determinant of public opinion, while measures of self-interest are the least …

According to the widely known 'culture of honor' hypothesis from social psychology, traditional herding practices are …, and large-scale surveys. The data show systematic links between traditional herding practices and a culture of honor …. First, the culture of pre-industrial societies that relied on animal herding emphasizes violence, punishment, and revenge …

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 …