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Human Development in Africa: A Long-run Perspective
Prados de la Escosura, Leandro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
development during the last half-a-century and, due to the impact of HIV/AIDS on life expectancy and the arresting effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009322973
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From Farmers to Merchants, Voluntary Conversions and Diaspora: A Human Capital Interpretation of Jewish History
Botticini, Maristella; Eckstein, Zvi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
From the end of the second century C.E., Judaism enforced a religious norm requiring any Jewish father to educate his children. We present evidence supporting our thesis that this exogenous change in the religious and social norm had a major influence on Jewish economic and demographic history....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005788962
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From Farmers to Merchants, Voluntary Conversions and Diaspora: A Human Capital Interpretation of Jewish History
Botticini, Maristella; Eckstein, Zvi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
From the end of the second century C.E., Judaism enforced a religious norm requiring Jewish fathers to educate their sons. We present evidence supporting our thesis that this change in the religious and social norm had a major influence on Jewish economic and demographic history. First, the high...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136751
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Effects of religiosity on social behaviour: Experimental evidence from a representative sample of Spaniards
Brañas-Garza, Pablo; Espín, Antonio M.; Neuman, Shoshana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
This study explores the effect of several personal religion-related variables on social behaviour, using three paradigmatic economic games: the dictator (DG), ultimatum (UG), and trust (TG) games. A large carefully designed sample of a Spanish urban adult population (N=766) is employed. From...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083371
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Bridges or Buffers? Motives behind Immigrants’ Religiosity - A Comparative Study of Europe and the United States
García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
Abstract: This study reviews and evaluates the motives and incentives behind immigrants’ religiosity, focusing on the two sides of the Atlantic – Europe and the United States. The contribution of the study is mainly empirical, trying to identify indicators for the type of incentive –...
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Belief in a Just World and Redistributive Politics
Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
International surveys reveal wide differences between the views held in different countries concerning the causes of wealth or poverty and the extent to which people are responsible for their own fate. At the same time, social ethnographies and experiments by psychologists demonstrate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504312
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Trust in Public Institutions over the Business Cycle
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
We document that trust in public institutions--and particularly trust in banks, business and government--has declined over recent years. U.S. time series evidence suggests that this partly reflects the pro-cyclical nature of trust in institutions. Cross-country comparisons reveal a clear legacy...
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Preventing Economists' Capture
Zingales, Luigi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
The very same forces that induce economists to conclude that regulators are captured should lead us to conclude that the economic profession is captured as well. As evidence of this capture, I show that papers whose conclusions are pro-management are more likely to be published in economic...
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Social Capital, Government Expenditures, and Growth
Ponzetto, Giacomo AM; Troiano, Ugo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
capital raises the average output growth rate and reduces its volatility by increasing public investment in education while …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084642
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Investment and Usage of New Technologies: Evidence from a Shared ATM Network
Degryse, Hans; Ferrari, Stijn; Verboven, Frank - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
When new technologies become available, it is not only essential that firms have the correct investment incentives, but … often also that consumers make the proper usage decisions. This paper studies investment and usage in a shared ATM network …. Because all banks coordinate their ATM investment decisions, there is no strategic but only a pure cost-saving incentive to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662325