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Culture, Institutions & the Long Divergence

Bisin, Alberto; Rubin, Jared; Seror, Avner; Verdier, Thierry - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Recent theories of the Long Divergence between Middle Eastern and Western European economies focus on Middle Eastern (over-)reliance on religious legitimacy, use of slave soldiers, and persistence of restrictive proscriptions of religious (Islamic) law. These theories take as exogenous the...

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Exporting Christianity : Governance and Doctrine in the Globalization of US Denominations

Hanson, Gordon H. - 2011

productivity of pastor effort is higher. These findings shed light on factors determining the composition of religion within …

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The Spanish Mission Legacy on Native American Reservations

Alston, Lee J.; Duggan, Marie Christine; Pastrana, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We explore the long run impact of the Spanish missions on Native American outcomes in the early 20th century. Native communities who interacted with Spanish missionaries developed into enclaves which blended Catholicism with native culture. Some survived assaults on their property rights by...

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Culture, Openness, and Finance

Stulz, Rene M. - 2001

country's legal system is more important than its religion and language in explaining shareholder rights. However, a country …'s principal religion helps predict the cross-sectional variation in creditor rights better than a country's openness to … international trade mitigates the influence of religion on creditor rights. Religion and language are also important predictors of …

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Education and Religion

Sacerdote, Bruce - 2001

positive education-religion relationship. The negative effect of education on religious belief causes more educated individuals … to sort into less fervent religions, which explains the negative relationship between education and religion across …-country variation in the education-religion connection. These cross-country differences in the education-belief relationship can be …

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The Economics of Religion, Jewish Survival and Jewish Attitudes Toward Competition in Torah Education

Carlton, Dennis W. - 2000

This paper examines the attitude of Jewish law to competition in light of the economist's understanding of the benefits of competition and of the beneficiaries from intervention in the competitive process. The punchline of this paper is simple. Although Judaism has used a whole host of...

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Does Teacher Training Affect Pupil Learning? Evidence from Matched Comparisons in Jerusalem Public Schools

Angrist, Joshua D. - 1998

The relationship between teachers' characteristics and their pupils' achievement has been the subject of many studies. Most of this research focuses on the impact of teacher salaries, experience, and measures of teachers' pre-service training such as educational background. The effect of...

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Trust in Large Organizations

Porta, Rafael La - 1996

Several authors suggest that trust is an important determinant of cooperation between strangers in a society, and therefore of performance of social institutions. We argue that trust should be particularly important for the performance of large organizations. In a cross-section of countries,...

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Dishonest Behavior : Sin Big or Go Home

Aimone, Jason A. - 2019

Economic agents face many different types of economic incentives when making financial and moral decisions. We provide experimental data from a population that uniquely responds to incentives to lie compared to previously studied populations. We conduct a standard 6-sided die rolling lying study...

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Charity Begins at Home (and at School) : Effects of Religion-Based Discrimination in Education

Lavy, Victor - 2018

Religions often preach preferential treatment of fellow believers. This paper examines whether one's religious status (secular or religious) leads one to discriminate against people with a different religious status; how this affects human capital formation; and whether this discrimination is...

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