institutional environment. In this paper, we address these issues by modeling the joint evolution of institutions and culture. In …

Does culture affect female labor supply? In this paper, we address this question using a recent approach to measuring … the effects of culture on economic outcomes, i.e. the epidemiological approach. We focus on migrants, who come from … behavior. We also extend the epidemiological approach to analyze the effects of religion on female labor supply. More …

stronger ties to French culture exhibit a more effective transplant even when controlling for institutional proximity. Our …

In this introduction we will avoid laboring over a definition of the “Economics of Religion & Culture,” but this will …

empirical estimation that employs data from 32 countries (included in the International Social Survey Program: Religion II …

empirical estimation that employs data from 32 countries (included in the International Social Survey Program: Religion II … ; religion ; fertility ; secularization ; ISSP …

Using data from approximately 11,000 individuals in 14 different OECD regions, we find that culture, as expressed by …

role of religion in human societies from a development economics perspective. We start by reviewing the contributions that … directly and through the effect of religion on institutions. Next, we summarize the literature that considers adherence to and … chooses to influence the contents of religion and the intensity of its dogmas. More precisely, we consider situations in which …

rejected at conventional levels of statistical significance (i.e., religion matters), but no robust relationship between …