Nothing Special   »   [go: up one dir, main page]

  EconPapers    
Economics at your fingertips  
 

The volatility of survey measures of culture and its consequences

Giulio Zanella and Marina M. Bellani

Economic Inquiry, 2024, vol. 62, issue 2, 675-697

Abstract: Measures of cultural attitudes derived from the World Values Survey are often used in economics to investigate the relation between individual culture and aggregate output. We show (i) that these measures are constructed from underlying variables that exhibit within‐country volatility and time trends; and (ii) that such lack of persistence implies fragile correlations between cultural measures and output. These points are illustrated by revisiting prominent studies in this literature.

Date: 2024
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://doi.org/10.1111/ecin.13202

Related works:
Working Paper: The Volatility of Survey Measures of Culture and Its Consequences (2019) Downloads
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:bla:ecinqu:v:62:y:2024:i:2:p:675-697

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://ordering.onl ... s.aspx?ref=1465-7295

Access Statistics for this article

Economic Inquiry is currently edited by Tim Salmon

More articles in Economic Inquiry from Western Economic Association International Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Wiley Content Delivery ().

 
Page updated 2024-12-28
Handle: RePEc:bla:ecinqu:v:62:y:2024:i:2:p:675-697