villages with a different majority religion, and villages with more within-village social gatherings; (2) villages with …

papers' contention that deeply rooted culture and social capital fueled the Nazi rise. The broader lesson is that research of …

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

arise from long-term processes influenced by geography, major historical events, culture, and, less commonly, religion. This … chapter reviews the available evidence to demonstrate that religion has a strong effect on formal (laws, judicial and … empirical challenges inherent in the study of religion and institutions, and proposes way to overcome them. It also suggests …

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 …