The replication crisis facing the psychological sciences is widely regarded as rooted in
methodological or statistical shortcomings. We argue that a large part of the problem is the …

The empirical literature on economic growth and development has moved from the study of
proximate determinants to the analysis of ever deeper, more fundamental factors, rooted in …

Reparations for slavery have become a reinvigorated topic for public debate over the last
decade. Most theorizing about reparations treats it as a social justice project-either rooted in …

We examine a determinant of cultural persistence that has emerged from a class of models
in evolutionary anthropology: the similarity of the environment across generations. Within …

While previous literature has paid much attention on the effects of trust as an informal
institution on economic growth and corporate behavior, it is unclear whether and how the …

Using CEOs' early-life experience during China's Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) to
distinguish the trust level of CEOs, we employ a difference-in-differences identification …

This survey reviews the recent research on trust, institutions, and economic development. It
discusses the various measures of trust and documents the substantial heterogeneity of trust …

We show that current differences in trust levels within Africa can be traced back to the
transatlantic and Indian Ocean slave trades. Combining contemporary individual-level …

This paper develops a new method to uncover the causal effect of trust on economic growth
by focusing on the inherited component of trust and its time variation. We show that inherited …

This paper presents a survey of the theoretical and empirical literature on cultural
transmission and socialization. It has been prepared for the Handbook of Social Economics …