based on differences in average answers to questions from the World Values Survey. Using a simple theoretical model we …

We study the global diffusion of culture through multinationals, focusing on gender norms. Using data on manufacturing … firms in China over 2004-2007, we find that foreign affiliates from countries with a more gender-equal culture tend to …

intrinsic utility, the longevity of national identity influences a national identity's perceived resilience to an ostensible …

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 …

-1367), who study cooperation and punishment in sixteen subject pools from six different world cultures (as classified by … cultural background relative to individual heterogeneity and group-level differences in cooperation. We find that culture has a …

including strong social norms. These patterns suggest that various seemingly unrelated aspects of culture are all functional and …

We show that culture and diversity strongly influence welfare systems around the globe. To disentangle culture from …