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 …

the household or the outcomes of these investments. Results using data from Colombia suggest that family size has negative … effects on average child quality. Children from larger families have accumulated almost 1 year less of education, are less …

This paper surveys gender earnings gaps in Colombia from 1994 to 2006, using matching comparisons to examine the extent …

Forty years of low-intensity internal armed conflict has made Colombia home to the world's second largest population of … enrollment is of particular concern because of the critical role that education plays in increasing human capital and …. First, we show that children living in municipality with high conflict have a gap in education enrollment and accumulation …

collected one and six years after the earthquake. Colombia provides a unique setting for our study because the government …