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 … issues, including female labor force participaiton, fertility, labor market regulation, redistribution, growth, and financial …

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 … professional leagues. We find a strong relationship between the history of civil conflict in a player's home country and his …

Economists have been reluctant to rely on culture as a possible determinant of economic phenomena. The notion of … culture is so broad and the channels through which it can enter the economic discourse so vague that it is difficult to design … testable hypotheses. In this paper we show this does need to be the case. We introduce a narrower definition of culture that …

This paper attempts to disentangle the direct effects of experience from those of culture in determining fertility. We …

Common culture and common language facilitate trade between people. Minorities have incentives to become assimilated … majority of individuals from one culture, individuals from minority groups will be assimilated more quickly. Assimilation is … less likely when an immigrant's native culture and language is broadly represented in his new country. Also, when …

When does culture persist and when does it change? We examine a determinant that has been put forth in the anthropology … beneficial in stable environments where the culture that has evolved up to the previous generation is more likely to be relevant …