We construct an endogenous growth model that includes a cultural variable along the dimension of individualism-collectivism …. Collectivism leads to efficiency gains relative to individualism, but these gains are static, unlike the dynamic effect of … individualism on growth through innovation. Using genetic data as instruments for culture we provide strong evidence of a causal …

individuals without such connections within the same region. Using individual-level data on connectedness from the Gallup World …

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 …

This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on local … political jurisdictions. Local contrasts across the language border identify the role of culture for unemployment. Our findings … indicate that differences in culture explain differences in unemployment duration on the order of 20%. Moreover, we find that …

In the Western world, multiculturalism has become the way to view and form "nationhood," igniting the interest to …

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 …

researchers have not accounted for the role of race and ethnicity in identifying culture parameters. Moreover, the majority of … cultural norms and female labor supply. For non-Hispanic Whites, the impact of culture is explained by variation in country … of labor supply are local culture and social capital measures. …