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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822906
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Compulsory Schooling Laws and Formation of Beliefs: Education, Religion and Superstition
Mocan, Naci; Pogorelova, Luiza - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We exploit information on compulsory schooling reforms in 11 European countries, implemented mostly in the 1960s and 70s, to identify the impact of education on religious adherence and religious practices. Using micro data from the European Social Survey, conducted in various years between 2002...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011105072
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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
religiosity and integration different in Europe and in the United States, due to historical differences in the state-religion … sides of the Atlantic – Europe and the United States. Based on the existing literature and on a statistical analysis of … several data sets (the International Social Survey Program – ISSP: Module Religion, 2008; the European Social Survey – ESS …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652535
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"To Have and Have Not": Migration, Remittances, Poverty and Inequality in Algeria
Margolis, David N.; Miotti, Luis; Mouhoud, El Mouhoub; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This article analyses the distributional impact of remittances across two regions of Algerian emigration (Nedroma and Idjeur) using an original survey we conducted of 1,200 households in 2011. Remittances and especially the role played by foreign pensions decrease the Gini index by nearly 4 %...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010713910
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822098
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822148
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822598
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822804
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Social Networks and Parental Behavior in the Intergenerational Transmission of Religion
Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We analyze the intergenerational transmission of the strength of religion focusing on the interplay between family and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147298
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Knocking on Heaven's Door? Protestantism and Suicide
Becker, Sascha O.; Wößmann, Ludger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We model the effect of Protestant vs. Catholic denomination in an economic theory of suicide, accounting for differences in religious-community integration, views about man's impact on God's grace, and the possibility of confessing sins. We test the theory using a unique micro-regional dataset...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009149144