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Using a sample of Spanish Catholics, we examined the level of religiosity (measured by beliefs, prayer and church … attendance) and the relationship between religiosity and various socio-economic variables. An Ordered Logit estimation of … religiosity equations showed that: women are more religious than men; religious activity increases with age; there is a …
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, bargaining behaviour and sense of fairness/equality, trust, and positive reciprocity. Three dimensions of religiosity are … examined: (i) religious denomination; (ii) the intensity of religiosity, measured by active participation at church services … with a "standard" religious denomination; (ii) among Catholics, intensity of religiosity is the key variable that affects …
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economic framework of a production function of 'religiosity' where parental inputs serve as factors of production. A sample of … data on several aspects of religiosity: two dimensions of the individual's religiosity - mass attendance (6 levels) and … well as the respondent's mass participation at the age of 12. The use of detailed religiosity measures (rather than one …
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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, personal attributes and marriage variables)...
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The paper explores the relationship between religiosity and fertility among Catholics in Spain, thereby answering the … question whether the two parallel trends of dramatic drops in fertility and in religiosity are inter-related. It looks at … current religiosity as well as exposure to religiosity during childhood. A unique, rich, data set is employed. It includes …
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This paper examines the influence of religion on female participation to the labor market using data relative to women aged between 18 and 60 years in 47 European countries drawn from the European Values Study (EVS). We investigate the determinants of the probability of being employed rather...
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Nineteenth-Century Catholic doctrine strongly opposed state schooling. We show that countries with larger shares of Catholics in 1900 (but without a Catholic state religion) tend to have larger shares of privately operated schools even today. We use this historical pattern as a natural...
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An economic theory of immigration and immigrant absorption for a religious minority is developed and applied to Jewish history. Human capital is classified according to whether it is allocative or productive, transferable or location-specific, general or Jewish. Crossclassifying these categories...
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context of lower church participation, religiosity has acquired a more relevant meaning for demographic behavior. Among the …
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, but almost no impact on urban and suburban areas. I use a difference-in-difference methodology and find that religiosity … agriculture. Chen (2010) describes increased religiosity in Indonesia following the 1998 financial crisis, and this paper … who are not. I hypothesize that the increased religiosity results from religious institutions' ability to provide public …
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