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This paper critically reviews what is known, based on analyses of micro-level U.S. data, about the role of religion in various interrelated decisions that people make over the life cycle, including investments in secular human capital, cohabitation, marriage, divorce, family size and employment....
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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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overall health and psychological health of the child. Three measures of religion/religiosity of the child are employed … health and the three measures of religion/religiosity. Those children (self-report or primary caregiver report) who have …
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-reported religiosity, frequency of praying, and frequency of church attendance. Using the European Social Survey, we first show that, on … average, religiosity of immigrants is higher than that of the native born, even among those without a religious affiliation …, income, marital status, and notably denominations, partly account for the overall differences. Religiosity of immigrants …
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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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the Economics of Religion and the Economics of Immigration, and distinguishes between religiosity per se and an immigrant …
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This paper focuses on the time allocation of spouses and the impact of economic variables. We present a stylized model of the time allocation of spouses to illustrate the expected impact of wages and non-labour income. The empirical model simultaneously specifies three time-use choices – paid...
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This paper analyzes the time allocation of Italian spouses to paid work, childcare and household work. The literature suggests that Italian husbands contribute the least to unpaid household work, relative to other European countries, while Italian women have the lowest market employment rates....
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This paper is focused on couple households where the wife is the main earner. The economic literature on this subject is particularly scant. According to our estimates, the wife was the main earner in one of every six couple households in France in 2002, including wife-sole-earner households....
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