Understanding the Individualism-Collectivism Cleavage …

Understanding the Individualism-Collectivism Cleavage and its Effects: Lessons from Cultural Psychology. Yuriy Gorodnichenko Gerard Roland University of California, Berkeley and NBER University of California, Berkeley and CEPR. Abstract: In this paper, we survey our recent work showing theoretically and empirically a link between individualist culture on one hand and long run growth and innovation. The Individualism-Collectivism cultural dimension is the only one that has a robust effect on measures of long run growth. We survey the cross-cultural psychology culture that finds that the Individualism-Collectivism Cleavage is also the most important one in that literature.

Interestingly, the individualism-collectivism cleavage is considered the single most fruitful dimension in cross-cultural psychology (Heine, 2008, 2010, Oyserman et al. 2002). In this paper, we present our findings on individualism, culture, innovation and growth.

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