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 …

, language, religion, level of education, industrial development and political system. Culture is a ambiguous construct and … understanding how culture relates to psychological phenomena is essential to analyze the determining dimensions such as the …

negatively correlated with growth-supporting formal institutions. -- culture ; economic development ; institutions ; property … rights ; religion …

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 …

(German and French) and religion (Roman Catholicism and Protestantism) as proxies for culture. These groups share a distinct …We investigate the effect of culture on corporate governance using the extraordinary opportunity that the corporate … equity structure are not significantly related to culture …