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From Farmers to Merchants: A Human Capital Interpretation of Jewish Economic History

Botticini, Maristella; Eckstein, Zvi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

Judaism in the first half of the millennium, we build a model in which Jewish men choose education, occupation, religion, and …

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Is Education the Panacea for Economic Deprivation of Muslims? Evidence from Wage Earners in India, 1987–2005

Bhaumik, Sumon K.; Chakrabarty, Manisha - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Few researchers have examined the nature and determinants of earnings differentials among religious groups, and none has been undertaken in the context of conflict-prone multireligious societies like the one in India. We address this lacuna in the literature by examining the differences in the...

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Religion, Human Capital Investments and the Family in the United States

Lehrer, Evelyn L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper critically reviews what is known, based on analyses of micro-level U.S. data, about the role of religion in …

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The Occupational Attainment of American Jewry: 1990 to 2000

Chiswick, Barry R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

the high level occupations. Thus, religion was more important than gender in explaining occupational patterns. American …

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Religious Affiliation and Participation as Determinants of Women’s Educational Attainment and Wages

Lehrer, Evelyn - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

Using a human capital model, this paper develops hypotheses about how religious affiliation and participation during childhood influence years of schooling completed and subsequent performance in the labor market as measured by wages. The hypotheses are tested using data from the 1995 National...

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Understanding the Development of Fundamentalism

Gang, Ira N.; Epstein, Gil S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

We use economic theory to examine the intensity of fundamentalist sects. Leaders work to enhance their followers’ observance level. We model three stylized situations under which fundamentalist groups function, examining the intensity of observance in each. We find that, under reasonable...

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Marital Fertility and Religion: Recent Changes in Spain

Adsera, Alicia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

. I use the 1985 and 1999 Spanish Fertility Surveys to study whether the significance of religion in fertility behavior …

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Unravelling Secularization: An International Study

Neuman, Shoshana; Brañas-Garza, Pablo; García-Muñoz, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

The current study examines individuals who were raised in a certain religion and at some stage of their life left it …. Currently, they define their religious affiliation as ‘no religion’. A battery of explanatory variables (country-specific ones … tendency of individuals to leave their religion is strongly correlated with the degree of strictness of their country and with …

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The Evolution of Secularization: Cultural Transmission, Religion and Fertility Theory, Simulations and Evidence

Bar-El, Ronen; García Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

empirical estimation that employs data from 32 countries (included in the International Social Survey Program: Religion II …

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Competition vs. Monopoly in the Religious Marketplace: Judaism in the United States and Israel

Chiswick, Carmel U. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

religion. The "New Paradigm" views separation of Church and State, leading to competition in the religious marketplace, as …

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