We construct an endogenous growth model that includes a cultural variable along the dimension of individualism-collectivism …. Collectivism leads to efficiency gains relative to individualism, but these gains are static, unlike the dynamic effect of … individualism on growth through innovation. Using genetic data as instruments for culture we provide strong evidence of a causal …

culture are more likely to end up adopting democracy earlier than countries with a collectivist culture. Our empirical … analysis suggests a strong and robust association between individualistic culture and average polity scores and length of … countries with collectivist culture are also more likely to experience autocratic breakdowns and transitions from autocracy to …

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 …

tradition and the financial success of films. We combine a unique catalog of local tales, myths, and legends around the world …

individualism accounts for about one-third of the cross-country variation in WFH rates. Australia, Canada, the UK, and the US score … highly on individualism and WFH rates, whereas Asian countries score low on both. Other factors such as cumulative lockdown …

historical economic development. A notion of culture as heuristics or rules-of-thumb that aid in decision making is described … costs and benefits of different traits. A number of empirical studies confirm that culture is an important mechanism that …

based on differences in average answers to questions from the World Values Survey. Using a simple theoretical model we …

We study the influence of agricultural labor intensity on individualism across U.S. counties. To measure historical … standard deviation in labor intensity is associated with a reduction of 0.2-0.4 standard deviations in individualism (as … in labor intensity over time due to both mechanization and the boll weevil shock. While culture transformed in response …

Rugged individualism--the combination of individualism and anti-statism--is a prominent feature of American culture … with deep roots in the country's history of frontier settlement. Today, rugged individualism is more prevalent in counties … with greater total frontier experience (TFE) during the era of westward expansion. While individualism may be conducive to …

We study the correlation between a belief concerning individualism and a measure of luck in the US during the period … individualism. We provide three short models that help interpret this correlation. One implication of this finding is that societies …