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. …

Purpose - The study extends the debate on finance versus institutions in the promotion of investment documented by … institutions to promote investment on the one hand and fighting financial allocation inefficiency by mitigating surplus liquidity … issues on the other hand. Originality/value - The paper extends the debate on the substitution of finance and institutions in …

of institutions. These results are confirmed with both annual data and five year average data. …

We explore a newly available dataset on quality of growth to investigate the effect of institutions on growth quality … in 93 developing countries for the period 1990 to 2011. Quality of institutions is measured in term of political risk … established. First, institutions are positively related to the quality of growth. Second, institutions have significantly …