According to the widely known ‘culture of honor’ hypothesis from social psychology, traditional herding practices have …

Using new data on linguistic diversity across and within countries, we examine novel channels though which language … general equilibrium implications of domestic language proximity, we simulate the repeal of Quebec’s Bill 101, which made … French an official language in Canada and established fundamental language rights for French-speakers. The analysis …

temporal side of the different processes interacting to produce a change in the structure of the language. That is, the rate of … import and dissipation of new elements is seen in relation to the rate at which a language absorbs such new elements into its … how the structural type of a language might influence its rate of adaptation of the external innovations and how the …

Social norms, though often implicit, are to a great extent communicated and made salient using natural language. They …

Language is a strong and robust determinant of international trade patterns: Countries sharing a common language trade … that this trade-promoting effect of language is likely to reflect cultural ties, rather than lower costs of communication … or similar institutions. Analyzing unique data for a single-language country, Germany, we find that similarities in the …

provide an explanation of why small countries sometimes exclude certain goods (especially those related to culture) from trade …

Does culture have a causal effect on economic development? The data on European regions suggest that it does. Culture … individual self-determination. To isolate the exogenous variation in culture, I rely on two historical variables used as … level. The exogenous component of culture due to history is strongly correlated with current regional economic development …

This paper studies the transmission mechanism from family culture to economic institutions, by analyzing the impact of …