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Institutions, Culture, and the Tropical Development Gap: The Agro-Climatic Origins of Social Norms about Thrift and Sharing

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  • Bernard Poirine
  • Vincent Dropsy

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The development gap between countries in tropical and temperate zones has been attributed to a variety of factors. Using data from the World Values Survey, we find that social norms about thrift, as opposed to sharing, vary with the length of the winter season. We also show that this cultural dimension “thrift versus sharing” and institutional quality both have an independent effect on contemporary economic outcomes. This suggests that the tropical development gap might be the consequence of deep-rooted effects of pre-industrial agro-climatic conditions on both the quality of institutions and social norms about thrift versus sharing that fostered development in the industrial era.

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  • Bernard Poirine & Vincent Dropsy, 2019. "Institutions, Culture, and the Tropical Development Gap: The Agro-Climatic Origins of Social Norms about Thrift and Sharing," Journal of Economic Issues, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 53(3), pages 677-702, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:mes:jeciss:v:53:y:2019:i:3:p:677-702
    DOI: 10.1080/00213624.2019.1641365
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    1. Vincent Dropsy & Christian Montet & Bernard Poirine, 2020. "Tourism, insularity, and remoteness: A gravity-based approach," Tourism Economics, , vol. 26(5), pages 792-808, August.
    2. Adrian T. H. Kuah & Yi Xia & Pengji Wang, 2022. "How Do Corporate Social Responsibility Engagements Drive Consumer–Company Identification in Singapore?," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(10), pages 1-23, May.

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