job search is verified. The threat of monitoring increases transitions to employment, but of lower quality. In the less …

provide an explanation of why small countries sometimes exclude certain goods (especially those related to culture) from trade …

Does culture have a causal effect on economic development? The data on European regions suggest that it does. Culture … individual self-determination. To isolate the exogenous variation in culture, I rely on two historical variables used as … level. The exogenous component of culture due to history is strongly correlated with current regional economic development …

According to the widely known ‘culture of honor’ hypothesis from social psychology, traditional herding practices have …

. Evaluation studies of such programmes commonly rely on the conditional independence assumption (CIA), allowing a causal … success, these variables were neglected in evaluation studies so far due to data limitations. In this paper, we evaluate a new … administrative-survey data allows us to incorporate usually unobserved personality measures in the evaluation and investigate their …

testable predictions regarding heterogeneous treatment effects from such programs. Using a large randomized evaluation in the …