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 …

historical economic development. A notion of culture as heuristics or rules-of-thumb that aid in decision making is described … costs and benefits of different traits. A number of empirical studies confirm that culture is an important mechanism that …

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

Culture has played a pivotal role in human evolution. Yet, the ability of social scientists to study culture is limited … by the currently available measurement instruments. Scholars of culture must regularly choose between scalable but sparse … can advance the study of human culture by providing quantitative, scalable, and high-resolution measurement of …

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 …