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 … literature has argued that gender differences in a variety of outcomes could reflect underlying cultural values and beliefs …

stochastic simulation of consumption choices in a nonstationarity environment is used to show the robustness of the method for …

) and consumption poverty. Our results show that the two measures assign similar poverty status to about 52 percent of … find that household size matters in consumption poverty while we do not find significant effects on multidimensional … poverty. Amongst the shocks, drought shock is found to affect consumption poverty but not multidimensional poverty. This …

This paper revisits the standard model of labor supply under two additional assumptions: consumption requires time and … utility at the optimum and above a critical wage level it converts into a pure consumption good. Their labor-supply curve is …

Monitoring Survey (RLMS) for 1994-2005. We analyze cross-sectional income and consumption inequality and find that inequality … shocks. The response of consumption to permanent and transitory income shocks becomes weaker later in the sample, consistent …

We propose a novel structural method to empirically identify economies of scale in household consumption. We assume … collective households with consumption technologies that define the public and private nature of expenditures through Barten … scales. Our method recovers the technology by solely exploiting preference information revealed by households' consumption …

Consumption expenditure declines sharply at the time of retirement for many households, but the majority maintain a … smooth consumption path. A simple life cycle model with uncertainty about the time of retirement can account for this pattern … consumption expenditure at retirement generated by the model is zero, while the mean is negative, matching the HRS data. However …

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 …