individualism on growth through innovation. Using genetic data as instruments for culture we provide strong evidence of a causal …We construct an endogenous growth model that includes a cultural variable along the dimension of individualism …-collectivism. The model predicts that more individualism leads to more innovation because of the social rewards associated with …

-of-origin composition of a county matters. Moreover, the culture, institutions, and human capital that the immigrant groups brought with …, measures of culture that capture attitudes towards cooperation play the most important and robust role. Finally, our results …

Does culture affect female labor supply? In this paper, we address this question using a recent approach to measuring … the effects of culture on economic outcomes, i.e. the epidemiological approach. We focus on migrants, who come from … and religiosity proxies are included shows that culture and religiosity have separately significant effects on female …

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 …