culture from other confounds, however, is often a daunting, sometimes intractable challenge for the working empiricist. To … of the border. Our results show multiple discontinuities and thus indicate a potential role of culture to shape …

, or gender roles), we argue that a culture's tightness – its strength of norms and social sanctions – can provoke a … represented among top leadership positions. Moreover, cultural tightness moderates the degree to which egalitarian practices …

tight (loose) and collectivistic (individualistic) countries. Culture influences stock price synchronicity by affecting … financial openness weakens the effect of domestic culture on stock price comovements. These results hold for various robustness … checks. Our study suggests that culture is an important omitted variable in the literature that investigates cross …

This paper explores the role of the gender equality culture in cross-country gender commuting gap differences. To avoid … inter-relationships between culture, institutions, and economic conditions in a simple cross-country analysis, we adopt the … evidence of the existence of a cultural impact. Our results show that a culture with more gender equality in the country of …

of strong persistence of culture among those with longer tenure in the host country, those who immigrated as children or …