greater financial health of Japanese households is due more to culture or to government policies, institutions, and other non … explained much better by non-cultural factors than by culture. …

by culture and social norms by examining their saving and bequest behavior. To summarize our main findings, we find that … the Japanese are not a saving-loving people and that their saving behavior is not governed by culture and social norms …, we argue that these findings do not necessarily mean that culture and social norms do not matter. …

-interest allegedly originating in Adam Smith. I embark on sketching a 'third culture' in economics, employing a notion from cross … 'third culture' in economics in which moral aspects of economic action loom large, as well as contextualized thinking in …

This paper investigates how Confucianism affects individual decision making in Taiwan and in China. We found that … loving, less loss averse, and more impatient after being primed with Confucianism, whereas Taiwanese subjects became … significantly less present-based and were inclined to be more trustworthy after being primed by Confucianism. Combining the evidence …

on two social norms associated with Confucianism: the unequal gender division of childcare within a household and the …