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Religion, religiosity and depression: re-assessing their relationship

Melgar, Natalia; Neuman, Shoshana; Rossi, Máximo - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales - 2012

We provide evidence on the significant effect of religiosity (measured by attendance to religious services) on reducing … depression. In particular, it is found a significant negative effect of religiosity on the probability of being depressed …-significant effect on the probably of depression, other aspects of religiosity, in particular the religious diversity of the country of …

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Religión

Rossi, Ianina; Rossi, Máximo - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales - 2004

The present paper is a first attempt to measure and explain, from an economic perspective, the religious behavior of uruguayans (women in this stage), and compare the results with those obtained for some Latin American and developed countries. In this first stage, the efforts were concentrated...

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Religiosity: A comparison between Latin Europe and Latin America

Rossi, Ianina; Rossi, Máximo - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales - 2008

links between individuals’ religiosity and several socioeconomic variables. We confirmed that Uruguayans are the least …

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Religión y Religiosidad en Uruguay

Ferre, Zuleika; Gerstenbluth, Mariana; Rossi, Maximo - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales - 2009

This paper presents descriptive data about religion and religiosity in Uruguay. Data is analyzed related to several … topics such as tolerance, religious beliefs, spirituality and politics. Our dataset is the Religion and Religiosity National …

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Individual’s religiosity enhances trust: Latin American evidence for the puzzle

Brañas-Garza, Pablo; Rossi, Máximo; Zaclicever, Dayna - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales - 2006

market, in general, are heterogeneous but never negative. In sum, individual’s level of religiosity crucially affects trust …. Thus, we found a positive effect of “religiosity” on social capital. In fact, we never found any negative (and significant …

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Notas panorámicas de la literatura sobre capital social y desarrollo: el papel de la religión

Rossi, Máximo; Zaclicever, Dayna - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales - 2006

In recent years empirical research about economic growth’s determinants has tended to incorporate political and social factors as explanatory variables, motivated by the evidence arisen from traditional analysis that the differences in countries’ economic performance can not be explained...

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Satisfacción con la vida, fe religiosa y asistencia al templo en Uruguay

Ferre, Zuleika; Gerstenblüth, Mariana; Rossi, Máximo - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales - 2010

estimate the probability of being happy with special emphasis on its relationship with religion and religiosity. We find that …

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¿Quiénes fuman en Uruguay?

Esteves, Elba; Rossi, Máximo; Sandoya, Edgardo; … - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales - 2013

Smoking is influenced by the interaction of individual, social, environmental and cultural, that impact the decision to smoke and the consumption pattern. The present study aimed to analyze which elements characterize smokers in Uruguay. The study was conducted based on the Encuesta Continua de...

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On Behavioral Complementarity and its Implications

Chambers, Christopher P.; Echenique, Federico; Shmaya, Eran - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales - 2007

We study the behavioral denition of complementary goods: if the price of one good increases, demand for a complementary good must decrease. We obtain its full implications for observable demand behavior (its testable implications), and for the consumer's underlying preferences. We characterize...

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La Responsabilidad Social Empresarial en Uruguay. Una visión comparada desde la ciudadanía y desde las empresas

Ferre, Zuleika; Melgar, Natalia; Pastori, Héctor; … - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales - 2007

The aim of this paper is to present, in a comparative view, the results of the Survey: Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) which was carried out by the Department of Economics (FCS-UDELAR) in 2006 to respondents older than 17 years and to private companies in the industry, commerce and...

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