Do institutions and culture affect environmental values? In this article we analyze 1,041 environmental valuations of … 223 wetlands in 38 developing countries, to examine the effect of institutions and culture on environmental values. We … wetland valuations. Understanding these important and varying effects of institutions and culture on wetland valuations is …

This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women … to distinguish the effect of culture from that of social capital. These results support a growing literature that … suggests that culture matters for economic behavior. At the same time, the results suggest considerable evidence of …

between culture and institutions. …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 …

-of-origin composition of a county matters. Moreover, the culture, institutions, and human capital that the immigrant groups brought with …, measures of culture that capture attitudes towards cooperation play the most important and robust role. Finally, our results …

Using the 41-year division of Germany as a natural experiment, we show that the GDR's gender-equal institutions created … a culture that has undone the male breadwinner norm and its consequences. Since reunification, East Germany still …