between culture and institutions …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 …

innovation in an individualist culture. This cultural effect may offset the negative effects of bad institutions on growth … effect between culture and institutions … 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 …

We investigate the role of national institutions on subnational African development in a novel framework that accounts …, residing in homogeneous geographic areas, to different formal institutions. Using both a matching-type and a spatial regression …-effect of national institutions on ethnic development masks considerable heterogeneity partially driven by the diminishing role …

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 …

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 … institutions are associated with weaker norms of rule-following and a greater propensity to cheat for material gain …

-specific characteristics such as the level of political freedom are taken into account. Political freedom is shown to explain terrorism, but it … does so in a non-monotonic way: countries in some intermediate range of political freedom are shown to be more prone to … terrorism than countries with high levels of political freedom or countries with highly authoritarian regimes. This result …

freedom. Hayek (1960) distinguishes two ways in which the judiciary provides such checks and balances: judicial independence … greater freedom. Consistent with theory, judicial independence accounts for some of the positive effect of common law legal … origin on measures of economic freedom. The results point to significant benefits of the Anglo-American system of government …