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Health and Christianity: Controlling for Omitted Variable Bias by Using the Data of Twins and Siblings
HONG, DING - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
significant positive health effects of religiosity of Christianity. The results also support the three explanatory mechanisms of … psychological resources. However, the data also suggests that either other channels through which religiosity affects health may …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259644
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Historical Missionary Activity, Schooling, and the Reversal of Fortunes: Evidence from Nigeria
Okoye, Dozie; Pongou, Roland - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper shows that historical missionary activity has had a persistent effect on schooling outcomes, and contributed to a reversal of fortunes wherein historically richer ethnic groups are poorer today. Combining contemporary individual-level data with a newly constructed dataset on mission...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112805
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Dissecting the Act of God: An Exploration of the Effect of Religion on Economic Activity
Carpantier, Jean-Francois; Litina, Anastasia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This research establishes that religiosity has a persistent effect on economic outcomes. First we use a sample of … migrants in the US to establish that religiosity at the country of origin has a long lasting effect on the religiosity of … migrants. Second, exploiting variations in the inherited component of religiosity of migrants, our analysis uncovers the causal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109803
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Religious affiliation and economic development: a recent literature review
Olimid, Anca Parmena - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
study argues that economic development depress religiosity. Subsequent comments will be linked to a much more comprehensive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008560091
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Spellings Commission Report on Affordability and Access to Higher Education: changing demographics, economic crisis and investment in human capital
Orkodashvili, Mariam - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The paper discusses report of The Spellings Commission for Future of Higher Education that was set up to look into the issues facing the higher education system in the U.S., outline the challenges and offer recommendations to tackle the problems. Most importantly, The Spellings Commission Report...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008596361
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A teoria do mercado religioso : evidências empíricas da literatura
Oliveira, Livio Luiz Soares de; Neto, Giácomo Balbinotto - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper deals with the Religious Market Theory. Concepts are presented, drawn of Economics, as, for example, religious commodity, supply and demand for goods and religious services, competition and monopoly in religious market and the degree of regulation in the religious market. We also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112556
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Measuring social capital with a myograph
Roberto, Censolo; Laila, Craighero; Luciano, Fadiga; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
We study the behavior of 12 pairs of undergraduate students while they were involved in a simple coordination game requiring motor interaction. Three experimental conditions were defined according to whether a monetary prize was given to both or only one subject, if the couple was in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835965
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Towards new maps of global human values, based on World Values Survey (6) data
Tausch, Arno - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
This article provides a new approach to the study of global values, based on a statistical analysis of the freely available data from the World Values Survey, 6th wave of global opinion surveys, which has now been made public. In accordance with economic approaches, we contradict the mainstream...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011240198
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Is fatalism a cultural belief? An empirical analysis on the origin of fatalistic tendencies
Ruiu, Gabriele - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
I maintain that fatalistic tendencies are the output of the interaction between cultural factors (and in particular of religious beliefs) and historical Institutional experience. Using WVS data this idea has been tested against two well known sociological theories on the origin of fatalism:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258730
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African Development,Partnership and Rationality Challenge:An Exposition
NWAOBI, GODWIN - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Since 1950s, most African nations have gained independence from their colonial powers. Fortunately, independence has brought many changes to these nations and these include multi-party democratic government and western education systems. Unfortunately, the Africa’s economy is the least...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259767