This paper shows that Tabellini's recent claim to have provided evidence that culture has a causal effect on economic … to support any conclusions about the effect of culture on economic development. -- culture ; economic development …

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 examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women …

stronger ties to French culture exhibit a more effective transplant even when controlling for institutional proximity. Our …

We study the interplay between scientific progress and culture through text analysis on a corpus of about eight million … relation between two key factors of long-term economic growth - science and culture. Considering the evolution of these two …

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

This paper explores intergenerational transmission of culture and the consequences of a plausible assumption: that … people care not only for their children's culture but also for how their grand-children are raised. This departs from the …