Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/215126 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 12730
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Common measures of cultural attitudes, such as those constructed from the World Values Survey, are characterized by substantial within-country volatility. This volatility is at odds with the notion of culture adopted in economics: a set of slow-moving traits that determine preferences and expectations transmitted from one generation to the next via family or social interactions. The insufficient persistence of survey proxies for such traits may compromise empirical studies of culture as a determinant of economic outcomes. We illustrate this point via a thorough replication, using the most recent WVS waves, of analyses carried out previously for regions in Europe.
Subjects: 
World Values Survey
culture
development
JEL: 
O12
O43
Z1
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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