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 …

motivation is crowded out when monitoring is above a certain threshold. We identify that both interpersonal principal/agent links …

Goals are an important source of motivation. But little is known about why and how people set them. We address these …

mission-oriented organizations is important to explain empirical findings of lower wages and high motivation in the latter. …