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Clash of Cultures: Muslims and Christians in the Ethnosizing Process
Constant, Amelie; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Christians. Individual data on language, culture, societal interactions, history of migration and ethnic self-identification are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566435
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The Implications of Cultural Background on Labour Market Choices: The Case of Religion and Entrepreneurship
Nunziata, Luca; Rocco, Lorenzo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We suggest a methodology for identifying the implications of alternative cultural and social norms embodied by religious denomination on labour market outcomes, by estimating the differential impact of Protestantism versus Catholicism on the propensity to be an entrepreneur, on the basis of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371895
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A Tale of Minorities: Evidence on Religious Ethics and Entrepreneurship from Swiss Census Data
Nunziata, Luca; Rocco, Lorenzo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Does Protestantism favour the market economy more than Catholicism does? We provide a novel quasi-experimental way to answer this question by comparing Protestant and Catholic minorities using Swiss census data from 1970 to 2000. Exploiting the strong adhesion of religious minorities to their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744664
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Religion and Innovation
Benabou, Roland; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
In earlier work (Bénabou, Ticchi and Vindigni 2013) we uncovered a robust negative association between religiosity and patents per capita, holding across countries as well as US states, with and without controls. In this paper we turn to the individual level, examining the relationship between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011265295
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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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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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How Economics Helped Shape American Judaism
Chiswick, Carmel U. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This chapter discusses the strong impact of economic forces, and changes in the economic environment, on American Jewish observance and American Jewish religious institutions in the 20th century. Beginning with the immigrants' experience of dramatic economic change between the old country and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008560403
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Egalitarian Religion and Economics
Chiswick, Carmel U. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
The role of women in the ritual of many religions changed dramatically at the end of the 20th century, to the point where full participation by women was the norm by 2000 rather than the rarity that it had been 30 years earlier. This paper considers some aspects of the economic context that help...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008560750
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The Cult of Theoi: Economic Uncertainty and Religion
Frijters, Paul; Barón, Juan D. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Sacrifices to deities occur in nearly all known religions. In this paper, we report on our attempts to elicit this type of religious behaviour towards "Theoi" in the laboratory. The theory we test is that, when faced with uncertainty, individuals attempt to engage in a reciprocal contract with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008560752