This paper examines how the concept of embedded culture played a transformative role in the ongoing cultural revolution …

instrumented with its cultural determinants. We conclude that perceptions rooted in culture are important (and generally omitted …

This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women … to distinguish the effect of culture from that of social capital. These results support a growing literature that … suggests that culture matters for economic behavior. At the same time, the results suggest considerable evidence of …

We use micro data from the European Social Survey to investigate the impact of "culture of leisure" and taxes on labor … attributes of the country of residence and country of ancestry. The results show that for women, both taxes and culture of … margins, but culture of leisure has no impact …

culture are more likely to end up adopting democracy earlier than countries with a collectivist culture. Our empirical … analysis suggests a strong and robust association between individualistic culture and average polity scores and length of … countries with collectivist culture are also more likely to experience autocratic breakdowns and transitions from autocracy to …

We investigate the empirical relationship between ethnicity and culture, defined as a vector of traits reflecting norms … predictor of cultural values, yet that within-group variation in culture trumps between-group variation. Thus, in contrast to a … overlap between culture and ethnicity, finding that the level of economic development is positively associated with cultural …