We construct an endogenous growth model that includes a cultural variable along the dimension of individualism-collectivism …. Collectivism leads to efficiency gains relative to individualism, but these gains are static, unlike the dynamic effect of … individualism on growth through innovation. Using genetic data as instruments for culture we provide strong evidence of a causal …

culture are more likely to end up adopting democracy earlier than countries with a collectivist culture. Our empirical … analysis suggests a strong and robust association between individualistic culture and average polity scores and length of … countries with collectivist culture are also more likely to experience autocratic breakdowns and transitions from autocracy to …

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

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 …

based on differences in average answers to questions from the World Values Survey. Using a simple theoretical model we …

Rugged individualism—the combination of individualism and anti-statism—is a prominent feature of American culture with … deep roots in the country's history of frontier settlement. Today, rugged individualism is more prevalent in counties with … greater total frontier experience (TFE) during the era of westward expansion. While individualism may be conducive to …

Jackson Turner famously argued that the American frontier fostered individualism. We investigate the Frontier Thesis and … identify its long-run implications for culture and politics. We track the frontier throughout the 1790–1890 period and … demographics and greater individualism. Long after the closing of the frontier, counties with greater TFE exhibit more pervasive …

We study the correlation between a belief concerning individualism and a measure of luck in the US during the period … individualism. We provide three short models that help interpret this correlation. One implication of this finding is that societies …

This paper reviews the literature on gender and culture. Gender gaps in various outcomes (competitiveness, labor force … article reviews the literature on the relevance of culture in the determination of different forms of gender gap. I examine …

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