based on differences in average answers to questions from the World Values Survey. Using a simple theoretical model we …

historical economic development. A notion of culture as heuristics or rules-of-thumb that aid in decision making is described … costs and benefits of different traits. A number of empirical studies confirm that culture is an important mechanism that …

While both cultural and legal norms (institutions) help foster cooperation, culture is the more primitive of the two … makes it difficult to identify the role played by culture. Cultural changes and their effects are easier to identify in … simpler, more controlled, environments, such as corporations. Corporate culture, thus, is not only interesting per se, but …

previously thought. Persistence is also culture specific, in the sense that the country of origin of one's ancestors matters for …

-standing) attributes in a culture set are. We illustrate these ideas using examples from African, England, China, the Islamic world, the …This paper proposes a new framework for studying the interplay between culture and institutions. We follow the recent … sociology literature and interpret culture as a \repertoire", which allows rich cultural responses to changes in the environment …

cultural heterogeneity, the world's geographical fragmentation by ethic and religious traits, at any given time. Finally, the …

This paper discusses some recent advances in the area of culture and economics and examines the effect of culture on a … key economic outcome: female labor supply. To separate the effect of market variables and institutions from culture, I use …

This paper first uses data from three large international surveys - the Gallup World Poll, the World Values Survey and …

, constructed from the World Values Survey, to review and extend the literature on the effect of family ties on economic behavior …