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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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Brañas-Garza, Pablo; Neuman, Shoshana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

levels) and his current prayer habits (eleven levels); spouse’s religious affiliation; parental (maternal and paternal) and …

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Intergenerational Transmission of ‘Religious Capital’: Evidence from Spain

Brañas-Garza, Pablo; Neuman, Shoshana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

prayer (11 levels); information on the mother's and father's church attendance when the respondent was a child (9 levels) as … a child. The output (respondent's religiosity) is measured using detailed data on mass attendance and prayer. Exposure … effect on the private/intimate activity of prayer than on the social/public activity of church attendance. Current mass …

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Analyzing Religiosity Within an Economic Framework: The Case of Spanish Catholics

Garza, Pablo Brañas; Neuman, Shoshana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

Using a sample of Spanish Catholics, we examined the level of religiosity (measured by beliefs, prayer and church …

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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...

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Love Thy Neighbor: Religion and Prosocial Behavior

Heineck, Guido - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

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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The Effect of Behavioral Codes and Gender on Honesty

Arbel, Yuval; Bar-El, Ronen; Siniver, Erez; Tobol, Yossi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We examine the effect of adherence to behavioral codes, as measured by the degree of religiosity, on the level of honesty by conducting under-the-cup die experiments. The findings suggest that behavioral codes, which prohibit lying, offset the monetary incentive to lie. The highest level of...

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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...

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Sinners or Saints? Preachers' Kids and Risky Health Behaviors

Delaney, Jason J.; Winters, John V. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper examines parental influence on adolescent risky behavior, focusing on a unique population: children of the clergy, more commonly known as preachers' kids (PKs). We use latent variable and zero-inflated count models to analyze the effect of being a PK on both uptake and intensity of...

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Religion, Politician Identity and Development Outcomes: Evidence from India

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clots-Figueras, Irma; Cassan, Guilhem; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

correlated with constituency level voter preferences or characteristics that make religion salient, we use quasi-random variation …

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