institutions. We review work with a theoretical, empirical, and historical bent to assess the presence of a two-way causal effect … between culture and institutions. …

smaller countries that were historically backward and developed a different set of political and economic institutions during … political institutions for the long-run evolution of wealth-income ratios. …

institutions. We improve and expand upon previous studies by (i) examining decade-long migration flows that (ii) include flows not … migrants. Once economic freedoms are controlled for, measures of political institutions do not enter significantly into our …

-of-origin composition of a county matters. Moreover, the culture, institutions, and human capital that the immigrant groups brought with …

This survey reviews the recent research on trust, institutions and growth. It discusses the various measures of trust … interactions between trust and economic development in the realms of finance, innovation, the organization of firms, the labor … market and the product market. The last part reviews recent progress to identify how institutions and policies can affect …

to examine whether institutions affect social preferences. We recruited North Korean refugees and South Korean students … attitudes toward political and economic institutions. Our experiments employ widely used dictator and trust games, with four …. Experimental behavior and support for institutions differ substantially between and within groups. North Korean refugees prefer …