In this article, we present a tool and a method for measuring the psychological and cultural
distance between societies and creating a distance scale with any population as the point of …

We use de-identified data from Facebook to construct a new and publicly available measure
of the pairwise social connectedness between 170 countries and 332 European regions. We …

We examine the relationship between board diversity and a firm's corporate social
responsibility (CSR) performance in a novel way. The relation between visible forms of …

Impersonal cooperation among strangers enables societies to create valuable public goods,
such as infrastructure, public services, and democracy. Several factors have been proposed …

This paper studies the effects of immigration on crime and crime perceptions in Chile, where
the foreign-born population tripled in less than ten years. We document null effects of …

This paper investigates how ethnic diversity, measured by immigrants' nationalities,
influences the well-being of the host country. Using panel data from Germany from 1998 to …

Recent research not only confirms the existence of substantial psychological variation
around the globe but also highlights the peculiarity of populations that are Western …

Cultural evolutionary theories suggest that world religions have consolidated beliefs, values,
and practices within a superethnic cultural identity. It follows that affiliation with religious …

We investigate the determinants of the fertility decline in Europe from 1830 to 1970 using a
newly constructed data set of linguistic distances between European regions. The decline …

We study the importance of linguistic diversity in the workplace for workplace productivity.
While cultural diversity might improve productivity through new ideas and innovation …