This paper proposes a new framework for studying the interplay between culture and institutions. We follow the recent … sociology literature and interpret culture as a \repertoire", which allows rich cultural responses to changes in the environment … and shifts in political power. Specifically, we start with a culture set, which consists of attributes and the feasible …

behaviors become healthier when the economy weakens, possibly by increasing the non-market time available for lifestyle …

Rugged individualism--the combination of individualism and anti-statism--is a prominent feature of American culture …'s frontier culture hampered the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Across U.S. counties, greater TFE is associated with less … social distancing and mask use as well as weaker local government effort to control the virus. We argue that frontier culture …

institutional environment. In this paper, we address these issues by modeling the joint evolution of institutions and culture. In …