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 …

According to the widely known 'culture of honor' hypothesis from social psychology, traditional herding practices are …, and large-scale surveys. The data show systematic links between traditional herding practices and a culture of honor …. First, the culture of pre-industrial societies that relied on animal herding emphasizes violence, punishment, and revenge …

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 …

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