Common culture and common language facilitate trade between people. Minorities have incentives to become assimilated … majority of individuals from one culture, individuals from minority groups will be assimilated more quickly. Assimilation is … less likely when an immigrant's native culture and language is broadly represented in his new country. Also, when …

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 …

When does culture persist and when does it change? We examine a determinant that has been put forth in the anthropology … beneficial in stable environments where the culture that has evolved up to the previous generation is more likely to be relevant …

historical economic development. A notion of culture as heuristics or rules-of-thumb that aid in decision making is described … costs and benefits of different traits. A number of empirical studies confirm that culture is an important mechanism that …

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 …

This paper reviews the literature on culture and economics, focusing primarily on the epidemiological approach. The … effect of culture from the original economic and institutional environment. This approach has been used to study a variety of …

Can some acts of violence be explained by a society's "culture"? Scholars have found it hard to empirically disentangle … the effects of culture, legal institutions, and poverty in driving violence. We address this problem by exploiting a …