Determinants of social norms II – religion and family as mediators
综述了地理条件如何通过影响宗教信仰和家庭组织传统，进而间接塑造社会规范，为理解社会规范的演化机制提供线索。
Abstract It is now abundantly clear that social norms channel behaviour and impact economic development. This insight leads to the question: How do social norms evolve? In a companion paper (Voigt (2023). Journal of Institutional Economics , 20), I survey studies showing that geographical conditions can have direct and long-lasting effects on social norms. This paper goes one step further: It surveys studies that show how different geographical conditions affect both religious beliefs as well as traditions of family organization and how these, in turn, affect social norms.