Economic growth and individualism: The role of informal institutions

Casper Hansen

Economics Letters, 2013, vol. 118, issue 2, 378-380

Abstract: This paper shows that the degree of ancestral individualism is positively related to annual earnings across second-generation US immigrants. This provides evidence in favor of Gorodnichenko and Roland’s (2011b) hypothesis that the individualistic dimension of culture is important for long-term economic growth.

Keywords: Epidemiological approach; Second-generation US immigrants; Individualism; Economic growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O11 O43 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2012.12.002

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