Common measures of cultural attitudes, such as those constructed from the World Values Survey, are characterized by … 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 …

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 …

implications for culture-led welfare policies. …

This paper reviews the literature on gender and culture. Gender gaps in various outcomes (competitiveness, labor force … article reviews the literature on the relevance of culture in the determination of different forms of gender gap. I examine …

habitation of at-risk areas, it is important to understand people's resilience to them. We quantify resilience by estimating how … exhibit less resilience. We find no evidence that existing indices of community resilience moderate impacts. Our conclusion is …

We identify the individual resources that predicted psychological resilience during the COVID-19 lockdown. Using UK … matching respondents on key characteristics, we find that the most important predictor of resilience is non-cognitive skills … income, wealth, cognitive ability, nor social capital predicted resilience. Our findings hold when comparing differences …

probability. -- Risk aversion ; competitiveness ; gender ; culture ; mixed-sex competition …

innovation in an individualist culture. This cultural effect may offset the negative effects of bad institutions on growth … individualism on growth through innovation. Using genetic data as instruments for culture we provide strong evidence of a causal … collectivism, in line with recent advances in biology and neuro-science. The effect of culture on long-run growth remains very …