This paper examines the role of social norms and political polarization in shaping vaccination attitudes and behaviors in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. Using a largescale representative survey experiment in Turkey, we first show that political affiliation is a strong predictor of...

We study the impact of gender norms on the distribution of paid and unpaid labor between women and men in an intra-household bargaining model featuring endogenous social norms. In contrast to the previous literature, which assumes a homogeneous social norm, agents are connected via explicitly...

Previous research has documented the importance and persistence of social norms, but there is limited understanding of whether they are capable of changing in the short run. Utilizing data from Sweden and Denmark, this article addresses this gap by testing whether significant local shocks may...

About 50% of Bangladesh's female youth working-age population is not in employment, education, or training (NEET). Reducing this number is an important policy goal. However, there is a broad consensus that pervasive gender norms hamper this goal in Bangladesh and other countries from the Global...

This paper analyzes the impact of gender norms on women's occupancy in leadership positions, using data from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) and an instrumental variables approach. We find that traditional gender norms hinder women from reaching leadership positions in their careers,...

The interactions between institutions and culture and the economic effects of their joint evolution have attracted a great deal of scholarly attention. However, only little research focuses on the ‘belief in a zero-sum game’, a cultural element that may have a significant impact on economic...

This article proposes current WTO Member States commit to a new, nonvoluntary agreement that conditions WTO membership on compliance with jus cogens norms. It argues that while the World Trade Organization (‘WTO’) system should not be the sole mechanism used to punish a state violating jus...

We consider the psychological and social foundations of human contributions and punishments in a voluntary contributions mechanism with punishment (VCMP). We eliminate ‘dynamic economic linkages’ between the two stages of our ‘modified’ VCMP to rule out other potential explanations. We...

This article offers a concise typology of spontaneous norms – i.e., norms that are formed or sustained through decentralized collective behavior in a community. The typology combines three criteria for identifying spontaneous norms: (i) implicit formation of (customary) rules, as opposed to...