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 …

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 …

implications for culture-led welfare policies. …

We use remarkable population-level administrative education and birth records from Florida to study the role of Long …

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 …

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. …

traditional culture, whereas boys are allowed to take advantage of the opportunities that come with citizenship. Alternative …

2007–2009 data set for higher professional education (termed HBO in Dutch) graduates from Maastricht University. We use a …

specific to migrants' characteristics and behaviour, namely dimensions of proximity to the native population's culture and the … immigrant's cultural background and proximity with the culture of the host society still significantly explain variation in …