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 … collectivism, in line with recent advances in biology and neuro-science. The effect of culture on long-run growth remains very …

China. Using precise measures of each worker's daily output linked to daily measures of pollution and meteorology, we find …

chaos, on a set of trust outcomes among people surveyed by the China Survey in 2008. We find that the revolution, identified … four decades prior to the China Survey, the results do not support viewing the sole passing of time as an effective cure to …

if “cultural diversity” affects total factor productivity. We distinguish diversity in the establishment's workforce and … with the degree of cultural heterogeneity. The aggregate level is, quantitatively, at least as important as the workforce …