While both cultural and legal norms (institutions) help foster cooperation, culture is the more primitive of the two … makes it difficult to identify the role played by culture. Cultural changes and their effects are easier to identify in … simpler, more controlled, environments, such as corporations. Corporate culture, thus, is not only interesting per se, but …

cultural stereotypes at the bank level, we show that corporate culture at bank headquarters is influenced by foreign …. We therefore leverage the geography of multinational bank branch networks to construct a bank-specific measure of culture …

This paper reviews the literature on gender and culture. Gender gaps in various outcomes (competitiveness, labor force … participation, and performance in mathematics, amongst many others) show remarkable differences across countries and tend to persist … article reviews the literature on the relevance of culture in the determination of different forms of gender gap. I examine …

innovation in an individualist culture. This cultural effect may offset the negative effects of bad institutions on growth … individualism on growth through innovation. Using genetic data as instruments for culture we provide strong evidence of a causal … collectivism, in line with recent advances in biology and neuro-science. The effect of culture on long-run growth remains very …

This paper reviews the literature on culture and economics, focusing primarily on the epidemiological approach. The … effect of culture from the original economic and institutional environment. This approach has been used to study a variety of …

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 …, quality), outliers, and team fixed effects. Reinforcing our claim that we isolate cultures of violence rather than simple rule …

This paper discusses some recent advances in the area of culture and economics and examines the effect of culture on a … key economic outcome: female labor supply. To separate the effect of market variables and institutions from culture, I use …