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Instrumental variables and National Cultural values

Nash and Patel's paper reviews the literature about instrumental variables in the national cultural values literature, offering a discussion about each instrumental variable and its application. You can read the paper here or here.

I organized this repository to facilitate access to datasets used to create the instrumental variables discussed by Nash and Patel (2019) and also avoid that these datasets become unavailable. Each dataset has a link to the original study. Nash and Patel's table 9 reports how each institutional variable maps into cultural values and what studies have applied them.

Genetic

5-HTTLPR

Data - Variable description

Source: Chiao, J. Y., & Blizinsky, K. D. (2010). Culture–gene coevolution of individualism–collectivism and the serotonin transporter gene. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 277(1681), 529-537. Link

Genetic Distance

Data - Variable description

Source: Spolaore, E., & Wacziarg, R. (2018). Ancestry and development: New evidence. Journal of Applied Econometrics, 33(5), 748-762.Link

Religion

Religion - Guiso

Data - Variable description

Source: Guiso, L., Sapienza, P., & Zingales, L. (2003). People's opium? Religion and economic attitudes. Journal of monetary economics, 50(1), 225-282. Link

Religion - La Porta

Data - Variable description

Source: Source: La Porta, R., Lopez-de-Silanes, F., Shleifer, A., & Vishny, R. (1999). The quality of government. The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 15(1), 222-279. Link

Language

Pronoun drop

Data - Variable description

Source: Kashima, E. S., & Kashima, Y. (1998). Culture and Language. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 29(3), 461–486. doi:10.1177/0022022198293005 Link

Linguistic Fractionalization

Data - Variable description

Source: Alesina, A., Devleeschauwer, A., Easterly, W., Kurlat, S., & Wacziarg, R. (2003). Fractionalization. Journal of Economic growth, 8(2), 155-194. Link

Behavior

Unpaid parking tickets

Data - Variable description

Source: Fisman, R., & Miguel, E. (2007). Corruption, norms, and legal enforcement: Evidence from diplomatic parking tickets. Journal of Political economy, 115(6), 1020-1048. Link

Demographic

Ethic and religion Fractionalization

Data - Variable description

Source: Alesina, A., Devleeschauwer, A., Easterly, W., Kurlat, S., & Wacziarg, R. (2003). Fractionalization. Journal of Economic growth, 8(2), 155-194. Link

Geographic

Latitude

Data - Variable description

Source: Hall, R. E., & Jones, C. I. (1999). Why do some countries produce so much more output per worker than others?. The quarterly journal of economics, 114(1), 83-116. Link

Temperature

Data - Variable description

Source: Van de Vliert, E., Schwartz, S. H., Huismans, S. E., Hofstede, G., & Daan, S. (1999). Temperature, cultural masculinity, and domestic political violence: A cross-national study. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 30(3), 291-314. Link

Settler Mortality

Data - Variable description

Source: Acemoglu, D., Johnson, S., & Robinson, J. A. (2001). The colonial origins of comparative development: An empirical investigation. American economic review, 91(5), 1369-1401. Link

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