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A Model of Demographic and Economic Processe Interaction

Olenev, Nicholas; Sarancha, Dmitry - EconWPA - 2003

This paper gives a description of fertility influence on education level of population and its well-being. We carry out the consideration by a demographic model keeping age structure. We suppose that (i) a part of GDP ia used for investment in education, (ii) the production level depends on the...

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Some Fundamental Inadequacies of the Washington Consensus: Misunderstanding the Poor by the Brightest

Woo, Wing - EconWPA - 2004

. 5. The Washington Consensus does not recognize the constraints that geography and ecology could set on the growth …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556001

Some Fundamental Inadequacies of the Washington Consensus: Misunderstanding the Poor by the Brightest

Woo, Wing - EconWPA - 2004

. 5. The Washington Consensus does not recognize the constraints that geography and ecology could set on the growth …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118852

Application of Economic Concepts on Religious Behavior

Mangeloja, Esa - EconWPA - 2003

This survey gathers the current state of research activity on the emerging economic sub-area Economics of Religion. The …

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The Invisible Hand Plays Dice: Eventualities in Religious Markets

Poutvaara, Panu; Wagener, Andreas - EconWPA - 2004

Religious participation is much more widespread in the United States than in Europe, while Europeans tend to view sects more suspiciously than Americans. We propose an explanation for these patterns without assuming differences in preferences or market fundamentals. Religious markets may have...

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Towards a new EU policy for the Mediterranean South? Culture, migration and the de-velopment of social indicators in a wider Europe. Conference Paper, The European Union Neighbourh...

TAUSCH, Arno - EconWPA - 2005

Both in demographic as well as in sociological terms, much of West European fears about East European migration at least conceal the real issues of the future migration processes. An analysis of world population growth trends shows that Africa, West Asia and Southeast-Asia become the real future...

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Denominational Schism: An Economic Perspective

Karacuka, Mehmet; Leroch, Martin - EconWPA - 2005

In this paper we present an economic model contributing to the explanation of religious schism, a topic mostly dealt with in the fields of sociology and psychology so far. The main idea is to see religious groups as networks. These networks may serve as a device for exchanging information about...

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Religion

Rossi, Maximo; Rossi, Ianina - EconWPA - 2005

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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DEMOCRACY, IDEOLOGY AND INCOME INEQUALITY: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS

Milanovic, Branko; Gradstein, Mark; Ying, Yvonne - EconWPA - 2003

/mixed Christian and societies without a dominant religion. In addition, we find a strong evidence that, controlling for the level of …

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Implications of the Economics of Religion to the Empirical Economic Research

Mangeloja, Esa - EconWPA - 2003

This paper collects most recent developments in the emerging economic sub-area Economics of Religion. According to …. This survey analyzes the economic consequences of religion, the two-way interrelationship between religious and economic … in economic development. Changes in belief systems, which in many cases will be forms of religion, also can significantly …

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