Using a recent household survey for two cohorts of married women, this paper examines norms about gender equality in education for children and adults. Among the main findings are that gender education gap norms have changed: younger generations of women are more positive about female vs. male...

Experts address "the development puzzle"--unprecedented growth coupled with unequal distribution of that growth across different countries--and focus on the importance of institutional arrangements and norms and culture.

The article is a sympathetic critique of the new jurisprudence of norms as developed principally by law and economics scholars. While the article applauds the intuition that has led such scholars to examine the role of non-legal norms in cooperative human conduct and the relationship of such...