The Evolution of Culture and Institutions: Evidence from the Kuba Kingdom

By Sara Lowes, Nathan Nunn, James A. Robinson, Jonathan L. Weigel. 2017

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On the Joint Evolution of Culture and Institutions (2017, unknown): “…the case for social/civic/human capital after colonization (Glaeser, La Porta, Lopez-de-Silanez, Shleifer, 2004; Easterly and Levine, 2012; and Bisin and Kulkarni, 2012) and for various social preferences after the creation of the Kuba Kingdom in the early 17th century Africa (Lowes et al., 2015).”
Cross-cultural, developmental psychology: integrating approaches and key insights (2020, background): “cheating behaviors in experimental settings, consistent with a historical pattern in which state formation crowds out internal norms of rulefollowing (Lowes et al., 2017).”
Can Policy Change Culture? Government Pension Plans and Traditional Kinship Practices (2021, background): “It builds on the literature on the evolution of cultural practices and attitudes (Giuliano and Nunn, 2016; Lowes et al., 2017; Bidner and Francois, 2011; Anderson and Bidner, 2015).”
Politico-Economic Regimes and Attitudes: Female Workers under State Socialism (2019, background): “of papers studies communities belonging to different states to isolate the effects of formal institutions on attitudes (Peisakhin, 2010; Becker et al., 2014; Grosfeld and Zhuravskaya, 2015; Wysokinska, 2015; Lowes et al., 2015).”
From Extreme to Mainstream: The Erosion of Social Norms (2020, result): “, Lowes et al. 2017); we show that changes on the political side can lead to fast changes in social norms. Our paper also adds to a recent theoretical literature on social norms (e.g., Bénabou and Tirole 2011, Acemoglu and Jackson 2017) by studying how new information may lead to erosion of such n”