Culture has played a pivotal role in human evolution. Yet, the ability of social scientists to study culture is limited … by the currently available measurement instruments. Scholars of culture must regularly choose between scalable but sparse … can advance the study of human culture by providing quantitative, scalable, and high-resolution measurement of …

substantial within-country volatility. This volatility is at odds with the notion of culture adopted in economics: a set of slow … interactions. The insufficient persistence of survey proxies for such traits may compromise empirical studies of culture as a …

According to the widely known 'culture of honor' hypothesis from social psychology, traditional herding practices are …, and large-scale surveys. The data show systematic links between traditional herding practices and a culture of honor …. First, the culture of pre-industrial societies that relied on animal herding emphasizes violence, punishment, and revenge …

implications for culture-led welfare policies. …

In this paper we identify two situations that can lead a firm to hire an executive who supports a corporate culture … that differs from the firm's current culture. In the first case, there is similarity between the firm's culture and that of … the candidate and in the second case, executives who support the firm's culture constitute a minority of available …

complex tasks. This requires an appropriate corporate culture, governed by reciprocity, fairness and commitment. Such a … culture can be viewed as a refined form of exploitation, however, as it involves creating an atmosphere of mutuality for … profit. I shall argue against this thesis that the same attribution mechanisms which render corporate culture an effective …

technological advantage, superior corporate culture, and status-seeking by workers can make small initial differences generate large …