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 …

Between and within firms, work teams compete against each other and receive feedback on how well their team is … performing relative to their benchmarks. In this paper we investigate experimentally how teams respond to relative performance … feedback (RPF) at team level. We find that when subjects work under team incentives, then RPF on team performance increases the …

cultural stereotypes at the bank level, we show that corporate culture at bank headquarters is influenced by foreign …. We therefore leverage the geography of multinational bank branch networks to construct a bank-specific measure of culture …

culture from other confounds, however, is often a daunting, sometimes intractable challenge for the working empiricist. To … of the border. Our results show multiple discontinuities and thus indicate a potential role of culture to shape …

The impact of culture on non-kin cooperation has been singled out as critical for economic activity. However, causal … evidence of culture's influence on cooperation remains scant. In this paper we provide such evidence, focusing on two key … components of culture: preferences and beliefs. Adopting the view that culture is one aspect of an individual's multi …

This paper reports results of two controlled experiments on the behavioural effects of relative performance information …-select. In fact, we demonstrate that RPI especially induces employees with a relatively low performance to voluntarily choose the …

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