Culture has played a pivotal role in human evolution. Yet, the ability of social scientists to study culture is limited … by the currently available measurement instruments. Scholars of culture must regularly choose between scalable but sparse … can advance the study of human culture by providing quantitative, scalable, and high-resolution measurement of …

researchers have not accounted for the role of race and ethnicity in identifying culture parameters. Moreover, the majority of … cultural norms and female labor supply. For non-Hispanic Whites, the impact of culture is explained by variation in country … of labor supply are local culture and social capital measures. …

We show that culture and diversity strongly influence welfare systems around the globe. To disentangle culture from …

This paper explores intergenerational transmission of culture and the consequences of a plausible assumption: that … people care not only for their children's culture but also for how their grand-children are raised. This departs from the …

particular, can culture constrain caloric intake and contribute to malnutrition? To answer this question, I first document that … on culture: that migrants make nutritionally-suboptimal food choices due to cultural preferences for the traditional …

This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empir- ical analysis is based on local … political jurisdictions. Local contrasts across the language border identify the role of culture for unemployment. Our findings … indicate that differences in culture explain differences in unemployment dura- tion on the order of 20 %. Moreover, we find …