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Saints Marching In, 1590-2009
Barro, Robert J. - 2011
The Catholic Church has been making saints for centuries, typically in a two-stage process featuring beatification and … naming of blessed persons seems to reflect a response by the Catholic Church to competition from Protestantism or …
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Religion, Longevity, and Cooperation : The Case of the Craft Guild
Richardson, Gary - 2008
When the mortality rate is high, repeated interaction alone may not sustain cooperation, and religion may play an … populations and the church promoted the doctrine of purgatory, guilds that bundled together religious and occupational activities … conclusion has implications for the study of institutions, economics, and religion throughout history and in the developing world …
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The Church vs the Mall : What Happens When Religion Faces Increased Secular Competition?
Gruber, Jonathan - 2006
variety of datasets to show that when a state repeals its blue laws religious attendance falls, and that church donations and …
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The Political Effects of Immigration : Culture or Economics?
Alesina, Alberto; Tabellini, Marco - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We review the growing literature on the political economy of immigration. First, we discuss the effects of immigration on a wide range of political and social outcomes. The existing evidence suggests that immigrants often, but not always, trigger backlash, increasing support for anti-immigrant...
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Movies
Michalopulos, Stelios; Rauh, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Why are certain movies more successful in some markets than others? Are the entertainment products we consume reflective of our core values and beliefs? These questions drive our investigation into the relationship between a society's oral tradition and the financial success of films. We combine...
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Unpacking Social Capital
Durante, Ruben; Mastrorocco, Nicola; Minale, Luigi; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We use novel and unique survey data from Italy to shed light on key questions regarding the measurement of social capital and the use of social capital indicators for empirical work. Our data cover a sample of over 600,000 respondents interviewed between 2000 and 2015. We identify four distinct...
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Culture in Historical Political Economy
Lowes, Sara - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Culture - the set of socially transmitted values and beliefs held by individuals - has important implications for a wide variety of economic outcomes. Both the causes and consequences of culture have been the subject of work in Historical Political Economy. I first outline several theories on...
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Culture Clash : Incompatible Reputation Mechanisms and Intergroup Conflict
Fouka, Vasiliki; Schläpfer, Alain - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Under what conditions does intergroup contact lead to conflict? We provide a novel answer to this question by highlighting the role of reputation mechanisms in sustaining cooperation. Reputational concerns can deter defection in one-time interactions within a group, but the informational content...
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Are Immigrants more Left leaning than Natives?
Moriconi, Simone; Peri, Giovanni; Turati, Riccardo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We analyze whether second-generation immigrants have different political preferences relative to observationally identical children of citizens in the host countries. Using data on individual voting behavior in 22 European countries between 2001 and 2017, we characterize each vote on a...
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Ancestral Livelihoods and Moral Universalism : Evidence from Transhumant Pastoralist Societies
Le Rossignol, Etienne; Lowes, Sara - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Moral universalism, the extent to which individuals exhibit similar altruism and trust towards in-group and out-group members, varies widely across societies. We test the hypothesis from anthropology that the requirements of transhumant pastoralism - a livelihood in which populations seasonally...
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