This paper uses a unique new data set on nearly a thousand manufacturing firms in Brazil and India to investigate the …

Brazil. We combine detailed geo-coded data on farming plots with dyadic data on social ties among settlers, and we leverage …

A growing body of empirical work measuring different types of cultural traits has shown that culture matters for a … variety of economic outcomes. This paper focuses on one specific aspect of the relevance of culture: its relationship to … between culture and institutions. …

We discuss the two-way link between culture and economic growth. We present a model of endogenous technical change … British Industrial Revolution. We also discuss empirical studies documenting the importance of culture and preference …

Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of … de-industrialization (Brazil, Russia and South Africa). China is the only country where an expanding manufacturing sector …

effects of culture. …

We examine the impact of culture on the work behavior of second-generation immigrant women in Canada. We contribute to … the current literature by analyzing the role of intermarriage in intergenerational transmission of culture and its … country of ancestry as cultural proxies, we find that culture matters for the female labor supply. Cultural proxies are …

behaviour. -- entrepreneurship ; self-employment ; religion ; culture ; Protestantism ; Catholicism …

evidence of the long-lived nature of institutions and the link between institutions and culture. In this paper, we provide an … be attributed solely to racial discrimination but can be explained by the response of culture to institutional … transmitted through culture can help to explain this persistent saving disparity. -- Savings gap ; institutions ; race ; culture …

identity, is constructed from information on the following elements: language, culture, societal interaction, history of …