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Divine Competition: Religious Organisations and Service Provision in India

Iyer, Sriya; Velu, Chander; Weeks, Melvyn - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2014

This paper examines religious and non-religious service provision by religious organisations in India. We present a stylized Hotelling-style model in which two religious organisations differentiate hemselves on the strength of religious beliefs in order to compete in attracting adherents. We...

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Divine Innovation: Religion and Service Provision by Religious Organizations in India

Iyer, S.; Velu, C.; Xue, J.; Chakravarty, T. - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2011

This paper examines innovations to religious and non-religious service provision by religious organizations in India. We present a stylized Hotelling-style model in which two religious organizations position themselves at opposite locations to differentiate themselves on the religious spectrum...

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With God We Trust: Religion, Trust and Cooperation in Large-Scale Societies

Gagnon, Julien - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2014

The first aim of this paper is to revisit the puzzle of cooperation in large-scale societies.It proposes a game theoretic model showing how endogenous emotion-based punishment can sustain ull cooperation when interactions are not repeated, provided that players' endogenous trust is high enough....

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Religion and Human Capital in Ghana

Blunch, N. - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2007

This paper examines the religion-human capital link, examining a recent household survey for Ghana. Insights from the … recent anthropological literature leads to a prediction of Islam being associated with lower human capital levels than … individual religious affiliation and human capital as measured by years of schooling, with Christians as a group being more …

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‘Religion and Fertility in India: The role of son preference and daughter aversion’

Borooah, V.; Iyer, S. - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2004

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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