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When Information Conflicts with Obligations : the Role of Motivated Cognition

Wang, Ao; Wang, Shaoda; Ye, Xiaoyang - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We experimentally test how psychological motivations can impact the processing of purely objective information. We first document that, when the high-stakes College Entrance Exam is held in the month of Ramadan, Chinese Muslim students perform significantly worse. When asked about the impact of...

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Opiates of the Masses? Deaths of Despair and the Decline of American Religion

Giles, Tyler; Hungerman, Daniel M.; Oostrom, Tamar - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

In recent decades, death rates from poisonings, suicides, and alcoholic liver disease have dramatically increased in the United States. We show that these "deaths of despair" began to increase relative to trend in the early 1990s, that this increase was preceded by a decline in religious...

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Measuring Religion from Behavior : Climate Shocks and Religious Adherence in Afghanistan

Dube, Oeindrila; Blumenstock, Joshua; Callen, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Religious adherence has been hard to study in part because it is hard to measure. We develop a new measure of religious adherence, which is granular in both time and space, using anonymized mobile phone transaction records. After validating the measure with traditional data, we show how it can...

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Praying for Rain

Espín-Sánchez, José-Antonio; Gil-Guirado, Salvador; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study the climate as a determinant of religious belief. People believe in the divine when religious authorities (the "church") can credibly intervene in nature on their behalf. We present a model in which nature sets the pattern of rainfall over time and the church chooses when optimally to...

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On the Importance of African Traditional Religion for Economic Behavior

Butinda, Lewis Dunia; Lameke, Aimable Amani; Nunn, Nathan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Within the field of economics, despite being widespread, African traditional religions tend to be perceived as unimportant and ignored when studying economic decision-making. This study tests whether this presumption is correct. Using daily data on business decisions and performance of beer...

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Religious Conversion across Countries

Barro, Robert J.; McCleary, Rachel M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

In a rational-choice approach to religious conversion, the conversion rate depends on a person's costs of switching religions and costs of having one's religion deviate from the type viewed as ideal. The International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) waves for 1991, 1998, 2008, and 2018 allow for...

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'We Are Not Guinea Pigs' : The Effects of Disclosure of Medical Misconduct on Vaccine Compliance

Archibong, Belinda; Annan, Francis - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

In 1996, following an epidemic, Pfizer tested a new drug on 200 children in Muslim Nigeria. 11 children died while others were disabled. We study the effects of the disclosure, in 2000, of the deaths of Muslim children in the Pfizer trials on vaccine compliance among Muslim mothers. Muslim...

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Religious Worship Attendance in America : Evidence from Cellphone Data

Pope, Devin G. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Religious worship is integral to the lives of millions of Americans. In this paper, I provide a descriptive analysis of religious worship attendance using geodata from smartphones for over 2 million Americans in 2019. I establish several key findings. First, 73% of people step into a religious...

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Why Survey-Based Subjective Expectations are Meaningful and Important

D'Acunto, Francesco; Weber, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

For decades, households' subjective expectations elicited via surveys have been considered meaningless because they … us understand previously-considered puzzling facts about their subjective expectations. In turn, subjective expectations … signals the same households observe, their subjective expectations, and their real-world economic decisions is crucial to …

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Non-Binary Gender Economics

Coffman, Katherine B.; Coffman, Lucas C.; Ericson, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Economics research has largely overlooked non-binary individuals. We aim to jump-start the literature by providing data on several economically-important beliefs and preferences. Among many results, non-binary individuals report more gender-based discrimination and express different career and...

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