-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 …

between culture and institutions. …A growing body of empirical work measuring different types of cultural traits has shown that culture matters for a … variety of economic outcomes. This paper focuses on one specific aspect of the relevance of culture: its relationship to …

Using the 41-year division of Germany as a natural experiment, we show that the GDR's gender-equal institutions created … a culture that has undone the male breadwinner norm and its consequences. Since reunification, East Germany still …

Do institutions and culture affect environmental values? In this article we analyze 1,041 environmental valuations of … 223 wetlands in 38 developing countries, to examine the effect of institutions and culture on environmental values. We … wetland valuations. Understanding these important and varying effects of institutions and culture on wetland valuations is …

evidence of the long-lived nature of institutions and the link between institutions and culture. In this paper, we provide an … be attributed solely to racial discrimination but can be explained by the response of culture to institutional … scaffolding erected many years earlier. Using a novel within race decomposition we provide evidence that past institutions …

for a larger menu of policies, institutions and structural characteristics of the economy than has been done so far, our … analysis improves upon existing studies of the role of culture for labor market outcomes by dealing explicitly with the … endogeneity of attitudes, policies and institutions, and by allowing for the persistent nature of labor market outcomes. When we …

innovation in an individualist culture. This cultural effect may offset the negative effects of bad institutions on growth … effect between culture and institutions. … individualism on growth through innovation. Using genetic data as instruments for culture we provide strong evidence of a causal …

for a larger menu of policies, institutions and structural characteristics of the economy than has been done so far, our … analysis improves upon existing studies of the role of "culture" for labor market outcomes by dealing explicitly with the … endogeneity of attitudes, policies and institutions, and by allowing for the persistent nature of labor market outcomes. When we …

innovation in an individualist culture. This cultural effect may offset the negative effects of bad institutions on growth … effect between culture and institutions. … individualism on growth through innovation. Using genetic data as instruments for culture we provide strong evidence of a causal …