conditions suggests a major role for culture in determining living arrangements. …

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 explores the role of culture in determining divorce decisions by examining country of origin differences in … evidence of the effect of culture. Our results are robust to controlling for several home country variables including average …-ethnics. Supplemental analyses indicate that divorce culture has a stronger impact on the divorce decisions of females than of males …

This paper analyses the changes in the size distribution of wages in Poland over a decade of transition. Until about …

from the employment registry of a transition economy (Poland), encompassing nine years of monthly data (from 2000 to 2008 …

German workforce have children aged 14 or younger and estimate that 11 percent of workers and 8 percent of all working hours …