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, provided that players' endogenous trust is high enough. The model the signalling theory of religion. Finally, the model enables …
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This paper examines the religion-human capital link, examining a recent household survey for Ghana. Insights from the … Christianity, since Islam, perhaps surprisingly, may be clustered together with Traditional/Animist religion within the group of …, while at the same yielding higher associations in the religion-human capital relations ship. In turn, this indicates that …
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This paper brings together the notion of ‘son preference’ and the complementary concept of ‘daughter aversion’ to provide an explanation for larger Muslim, relative to Hindu, families in India. Just as sons bring ‘benefits’ to their parents, daughters impose ‘costs’ and...
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This paper uses evidence from German-speaking central Europe to address open questions about the Consumer and Industrious Revolutions. Did they happen outside the early-developing, North Atlantic economies? Were they shaped by the “social capital” of traditional institutions? How were they...
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Demographic behaviour is influenced not just by attributes of individuals but also by characteristics of the communities in which those individuals live. A project on ‘Economy, Gender, and Social Capital in the German Demographic Transition’ is analyzing the longterm determinants of...
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adherents. In order to test our propositions, we present unique primary survey data on the economics of religion that we have … religious and non-religious services, but that there are significant variations by religion. We also provide quantitative …
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dataon the economics of religion, collected by us between 2006 and 2010 from 568 Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Sikh and Jain …
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