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Social Capital as Good Culture
Guiso, Luigi; Zingales, Luigi; Sapienza, Paola - 2021
To explain the extremely long-term persistence (more than 500 years) of positive historical experiences of cooperation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013310596
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Culture and Institutions
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2013
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071464
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The Evolution of Culture and Institutions : Evidence from the Kuba Kingdom
Lowes, Sara - 2015
We use variation in historical state centralization to examine the impact of institutions on cultural norms. The Kuba Kingdom, established in Central Africa in the early 17th century by King Shyaam, had more developed state institutions than the other independent villages and chieftaincies in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013010286
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Laws and Norms
Bénabou, Roland - 2011
This paper analyzes how private decisions and public policies are shaped by personal and societal preferences ("values"), material or other explicit incentives ("laws") and social sanctions or rewards ("norms"). It first examines how honor, stigma and social norms arise from individuals'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118832
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Law, Endowments, and Property Rights
Levine, Ross - 2007
While scholars have hypothesized about the sources of variation in property rights for over 2500years, it is only very recently that researchers have begun to test these theories empirically. Thispaper reviews both the theory and empirical evidence supporting and refuting the law andendowment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778660
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Culture, Openness, and Finance
Williamson, Rohan - 2012
Religions have little to say about shareholders but have much to say about creditors. We find that the origin of a country's legal system is more important than its religion and language in explaining shareholder rights. However, a country's principal religion helps predict the cross-sectional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012755967
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Ode to the Sea : Workplace Organizations and Norms of Cooperation
Gneezy, Uri - 2014
The functioning and well-being of any society and organization critically hinges on norms of cooperation that regulate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013052112
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History, Expectations, and Leadership in the Evolution of Social Norms
Acemoglu, Daron - 2011
We study the evolution of the social norm of "cooperation" in a dynamic environment. Each agent lives for two periods … completely drives equilibrium play, leading to a social norm of high or low cooperation. In intermediate cases, the impact of … leverage their greater visibility to influence expectations of future agents and overturn social norms of low cooperation. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124659
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Violence Against Women : A Cross-Cultural Analysis for Africa
Alesina, Alberto F.; Brioschi, Benedetta; La Ferrara, Eliana - 2021
Using a new dataset, we investigate the determinants of violence against women in Africa. We focus on cultural factors arising from pre-colonial customs and find evidence consistent with two hypotheses. First, ancient socioeconomic conditions determine social norms about gender roles, family...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013235889
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Trust and Cheating
Butler, Jeffrey V. - 2012
When we take a cab we may feel cheated if the driver takes an unnecessarily long route despite the lack of a contract or promise to take the shortest possible path. Is our decision to take the cab affected by our belief that we may end up feeling cheated? Is the behavior of the driver affected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098476