This paper reviews recent economics literature on culture, with an emphasis on its relation to the field of long …-run growth and development. It examines the key issues debated in the new cultural economics: causal effects of culture on … economic outcomes, the origins and social costs of culture, as well as cultural transmission, persistence, and change. Some of …

autocracy and a culture of collectivism. These are both associated with weaker female property rights. …

caste-based social networks on individual and group productivity when workers are complements in the production function but …-days, we find that a 1 percentage point increase in the share of own caste workers in the line increases daily individual … when the production line has a more homogeneous caste composition. Production externalities that impose financial costs due …