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 …

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

This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on local … political jurisdictions. Local contrasts across the language border identify the role of culture for unemployment. Our findings … indicate that differences in culture explain differences in unemployment duration on the order of 20 %. Moreover, we find that …

the host country's culture. While migrants do act as vectors of cultural diffusion and bring about cultural convergence …