innovation in an individualist culture. This cultural effect may offset the negative effects of bad institutions on growth … effect between culture and institutions. -- culture ; institutions ; development ; growth … individualism on growth through innovation. Using genetic data as instruments for culture we provide strong evidence of a causal …

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 …

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 …

This survey reviews the recent research on trust, institutions and growth. It discusses the various measures of trust … market and the product market. The last part reviews recent progress to identify how institutions and policies can affect …

relationship is influenced by the quality of local institutions, as proxied by corruption. We use representative data from a large …

-colonial autocratic institutions within ethnic groups and the emergence of autocratic institutions across countries. Diversity has … amplified the importance of institutions in mitigating the adverse effects of non-cohesiveness on productivity, while … contributing to the scope for domination, leading to the formation of institutions of the autocratic type. …

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 …