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Forbidden Fruits: The Political Economy of Science, Religion, and Growth

Bénabou, Roland; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

and economic lines. History offers many examples of the recurring tensions between science and organized religion, but as …, unimpeded science, a passive Church and high levels of taxes and transfers. Second, a "Theocratic" regime with knowledge …

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Religion and Innovation

Bénabou, Roland; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

, broadly defined (e.g., attitudes toward science and technology, new versus old ideas, change, risk taking, personal agency …

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Why Do Women Leave Science and Engineering?

Hunt, Jennifer - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

from science and engineering relative to other fields. I find that the higher relative exit rate is driven by engineering … rather than science, and show that 60% of the gap can be explained by the relatively greater exit rate from engineering of …

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Science versus Profit in Research: Lessons from the Human Genome Project

Carraro, Carlo; Pomè, Alessandra; Siniscalco, Domenico - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

This Paper elaborates on the recent race to sequence the human genome. Starting from the debate arising from the genome case on public versus private research, the Paper shows that in some fundamental research areas, where knowledge externalities play an important role, market and non-market...

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How and Why Does Knowledge Spill Over? The Case of Biotechnology

Audretsch, David B; Stephan, Paula E - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

This paper sheds light on the questions, Why does knowledge spill over? and How does knowledge spill over? The answer to these questions lies in the incentives confronting scientists to appropriate the expected value of their knowledge considered in the context of their path-dependent career...

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Does polarization of opinions lead to polarization of platforms? the case of correlation neglect

Levy, Gilat; Razin, Ronny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

In this paper we question the common wisdom that more polarized voters’ opinions imply larger policy polarization. We analyze a voting model in which the source of the polarization in voters’ opinions is “correlation neglect”, that is, voters neglect the correlation in their information...

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Public Opinion on Immigration: Has the Recession Changed Minds?

Hatton, Timothy J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

It is widely believed that the current recession has soured public attitudes towards immigration. But most existing studies are cross sectional and can shed little light on the economy-wide forces that shift public opinion on immigration. In this paper I use the six rounds of the European Social...

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Public Debate and Stock Prices: Evidence from the Voting Premium

Braggion, Fabio; Giannetti, Mariassunta - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

An intense debate on the use of limited-voting shares developed in the UK during the 1950s. Using a unique hand-collected dataset, we show that negative news coverage of limited-voting shares is associated with an increase in the relative price of voting and limited-voting shares (the voting...

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Belief in a Just World and Redistributive Politics

Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

concerning ‘money’ (consumption) and happiness, as well as religion. …

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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 … “no religion” made decisions closer to rational selfish behaviour in the DG and the UG compared to those who affiliate … religion raised in seems to have no effect on pro-sociality, beyond the effect of the current measures of religiosity …

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