This paper reviews available cross-disciplinary evidence on how culture affects food
security. We discuss the impact of culture on all four dimensions (availability, access and …

The presence of a westward‐moving frontier of settlement shaped early US history. In 1893,
the historian Frederick Jackson Turner famously argued that the American frontier fostered …

This paper presents a new global dataset on contemporary witchcraft beliefs and
investigates their correlates. Witchcraft beliefs cut across socio-demographic groups but are …

This paper examines the relationship between witchcraft beliefs, a deep-rooted cultural
phenomenon, and various elements of social capital. Using novel survey data from nineteen …

There is significant academic debate on how culture influences tax morale. The existing
works in the field use several approaches, methods, and geographical outreaches. This …

New institutional economics (NIE) is a powerful tool for understanding real world
phenomena. This Advanced Introduction explores NIE's answers to fundamental questions …

We conduct trust games in three villages in a northeastern Romanian commune. From 1775–
1919, these villages were arbitrarily assigned to opposite sides of the Austrian and …

This paper argues that the historical slave trade contributed to the propagation of persistent
witchcraft beliefs on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean and establishes two key empirical …

In this paper, I examine how selective migration can generate persistent cultural change in
migrant-sending locations. My analysis centers on the hypothesis that individuals with a …

Headhunting–the practice of acquiring human heads for ritual purposes–was historically
widespread around the world. We hypothesize that headhunting represented a cultural …