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 as reflected in social and religious norms may be pivotal to social organization in a decentralised economy … collectivist cultures to argue that collectivist culture may promote rules to indulge in family, social and religious values at the … promoting collectivist culture. Results using 1997 and 2007 Indonesian Family Life Survey community-level panel data highlight …

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 …

did not find any effect of culture on savings. We revisit this evidence using a novel dataset, which allows us to study …

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 …

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

This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women … the effect of culture from that of social capital. These results support a growing literature that suggests that culture …

We use micro data from the European Social Survey to investigate the impact of “culture of leisure” and taxes on labor … attributes of the country of residence and country of ancestry.The results show that for women, both taxes and culture of leisure …, but culture of leisure has no impact …