This paper investigates how Confucianism affects individual decision making in Taiwan and in China. We found that … loving, less loss averse, and more impatient after being primed with Confucianism, whereas Taiwanese subjects became … significantly less present-based and were inclined to be more trustworthy after being primed by Confucianism. Combining the evidence …

We discuss the two-way link between culture and economic growth. We present a model of endogenous technical change … British Industrial Revolution. We also discuss empirical studies documenting the importance of culture and preference …

We examine the impact of culture on the work behavior of second-generation immigrant women in Canada. We contribute to … the current literature by analyzing the role of intermarriage in intergenerational transmission of culture and its … country of ancestry as cultural proxies, we find that culture matters for the female labor supply. Cultural proxies are …

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 examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women … to distinguish the effect of culture from that of social capital. These results support a growing literature that … suggests that culture matters for economic behavior. At the same time, the results suggest considerable evidence of …