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Is Religiosity of Immigrants a Bridge or a Buffer in the Process of Integration? A Comparative Study of Europe and the United States
García Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
several data sets (the International Social Survey Program – ISSP: Module Religion, 2008; the European Social Survey – ESS … religiosity and integration different in Europe and in the United States, due to historical differences in the state-religion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652535
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Incentives and Prosocial Behavior
Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
We develop a theory of prosocial behavior that combines heterogeneity in individual altruism and greed with concerns for social reputation or self-respect. Rewards or punishments (whether material or image-related) create doubt about the true motive for which good deeds are performed and this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703171
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Seemingly Irrelevant Events Affect Economic Perceptions and Expectations: The FIFA World Cup 2006 as a Natural Experiment
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Prominent economic theories have emphasized the role of commonly held perceptions and expectations for determining macroeconomic outcomes. A key empirical question is how such collectively held beliefs are formed. We use the FIFA World Cup 2006 as a natural experiment. We provide direct evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703189
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Ideology
Benabou, Roland - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
I develop a model of ideologies as collectively sustained (yet individually rational) distortions in beliefs concerning the proper scope of governments versus markets. In processing and interpreting signals of the efficacy of public and market provision of education, health insurance, pensions,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763921
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Motivational Goal Bracketing
Koch, Alexander K.; Nafziger, Julia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
It is a puzzle why people often evaluate consequences of choices separately (narrow bracketing) rather than jointly (broad bracketing). We study the hypothesis that a present-biased individual, who faces two tasks, may bracket his goals narrowly for motivational reasons. Goals motivate because...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008517973
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Groupthink: Collective Delusions in Organizations and Markets
Benabou, Roland - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper investigates collective denial and willful blindness in groups, organizations and markets. Agents with anticipatory preferences, linked through an interaction structure, choose how to interpret and recall public signals about future prospects. Wishful thinking (denial of bad news) is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010704406
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Identification Problems in Personality Psychology
Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn, Bart; Heckman, James J.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper discusses and illustrates identification problems in personality psychology. The measures used by … substantial portions of the variance in achievement test scores and grades, which are often used as measures of cognition, are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008922967
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Self-Regulation through Goal Setting
Koch, Alexander K.; Nafziger, Julia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
questions in a model based on two stylized facts from psychology and behavioral economics: i) Goals serve as reference points …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566581
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Does Secular Education Impact Religiosity, Electoral Participation and the Propensity to Vote for Islamic Parties? Evidence from an Education Reform in a Muslim Country
Cesur, Resul; Mocan, Naci - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Using a unique survey of adults in Turkey, we find that an increase in educational attainment, due to an exogenous secular education reform, decreases women's propensity to identify themselves as religious, lowers their tendency to wear a religious head cover (head scarf, turban or burka) and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884146
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Love Thy Neighbor: Religion and Prosocial Behavior
Heineck, Guido - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
There is a long tradition in psychology, the social sciences and, more recently though, economics to hypothesize that … religion enhances prosocial behavior. Evidence from both survey and experimental data however yield mixed results and there is … and church attendance. Despite the historic divide in religion, results in West and East Germany do not differ …
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