-standing) attributes in a culture set are. We illustrate these ideas using examples from African, England, China, the Islamic world, the …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 …

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 …

Can some acts of violence be explained by a society's "culture"? Scholars have found it hard to empirically disentangle … the effects of culture, legal institutions, and poverty in driving violence. We address this problem by exploiting a …

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

In China, local governments have actively contributed to the growth of new firms. In Russia, local governments have … question then is why this has not happened in China. We argue that the answer lies in the degree of political centralization … present in China, but not in Russia. Transition in China has taken place under the tight control of the communist party. As a …

. Diamond (1997) famously argued that "fractured land" was responsible for China's tendency toward political unification and … state formation in Eurasia. We find that either topography or productive land alone is sufficient to account for China … productivity in Northern China plays a central role in our simulations. We discuss how our results map into observed historical …

, as well as in South Korea and China--two countries on different sides of the trilemma triangle of international finance …. We document that global financial shocks in both China and South Korea explain a substantial share of equity return … than 10 percent in Korea and negligible in the case of China). We also find that the combination of a closer capital …

second from China. In each case, we find that women are far less likely to be investigated for corruption than men. In our … enforcement authorities; in China, female prefectural leaders are as much as 75 percent less likely to be arrested for corruption …