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 … between culture and institutions …

previously thought. Persistence is also culture specific, in the sense that the country of origin of one's ancestors matters for …

While both cultural and legal norms (institutions) help foster cooperation, culture is the more primitive of the two … makes it difficult to identify the role played by culture. Cultural changes and their effects are easier to identify in … simpler, more controlled, environments, such as corporations. Corporate culture, thus, is not only interesting per se, but …

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 …

This paper reviews the literature on culture and economics, focusing primarily on the epidemiological approach. The … effect of culture from the original economic and institutional environment. This approach has been used to study a variety of …

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 …

disentangle the effects of culture, legal institutions, and poverty in driving violence. We address this problem by exploiting a …