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

comparative development and culture. First, we introduce and describe a unique catalogue of folklore that codes the presence of … affluent society, the culture of honor among pastoralists, the role of family in extended kinship systems and the intensity of …

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

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 …

While both cultural and legal norms (institutions) help foster cooperation, culture is the more primitive of the two … and itself sustains formal institutions. Cultural changes are rarer and slower than changes in legal institutions, which … makes it difficult to identify the role played by culture. Cultural changes and their effects are easier to identify in …

migrating and female labor supply in their source country to provide evidence on the role of human capital and culture in … culture and norms in affecting immigrant women's labor supply, since the effect of source country female labor supply on …