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 … individualism on growth through innovation. Using genetic data as instruments for culture we provide strong evidence of a causal …

This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on local … political jurisdictions. Local contrasts across the language border identify the role of culture for unemployment. Our findings … indicate that differences in culture explain differences in unemployment duration on the order of 20%. Moreover, we find that …

first century and family values prevailing before World War II, which suggests that labor market regulations have deep …

and cultural diffusion mechanisms. We use the World Value Survey for 1981-2014 to build time-varying measures of cultural …, we find that while immigrants do act as vectors of cultural diffusion, this is mostly to export the host country culture …