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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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This paper attempts to disentangle the direct effects of experience from those of culture in determining fertility. We …
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Religions have little to say about shareholders but have much to say about creditors. We find that the origin of a country's legal system is more important than its religion and language in explaining shareholder rights. However, a country's principal religion helps predict the cross-sectional...
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The globalization of firms is explored at theoretical and empirical levels. The idea is that a global firm is a multi-cultural team. The existence of a global firm is somewhat puzzling. Combining workers who have different cultures, legal systems, and languages imposes costs on the firm that...
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Because efforts to explain international saving differentials using traditional economic variables have not been very successful (Bosworth, 1993), some economists have proposed that national saving differences reflect cultural differences. We attempt to test that hypothesis by using data from...
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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 …
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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 …
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