event on public discourse and voters' support for far-right parties. We first develop a rule which allocates Twitter users …

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 …

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 …

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 …

culture is so broad and the channels through which it can enter the economic discourse so vague that it is difficult to design …Economists have been reluctant to rely on culture as a possible determinant of economic phenomena. The notion of … 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 …