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This paper surveys the recent social science literature on religion in economic history, covering both socioeconomic causes and consequences of religion. Following the rapidly growing literature, it focuses on the three main monotheisms—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—and on the period up...
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education, in addition to discussing how technological change creates new challenges for the taxation of income and consumption … crises. Finally, we summarize the key issues discussed at the 2021 International Institute of Public Finance Congress and the …
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data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of … fixed effects account for time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity, education – but not income or urbanization – is …
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Protestant economic history of Becker and Woessmann (2009), where Protestantism first led to better education, which in turn … explanation, where a Protestant work ethic first led to industrialization which then increased the demand for education. …
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The interaction between investment in children's education and parental fertility is crucial in recent theories of the … significant negative causal effect of education on fertility, which is robust to accounting for spatial autocorrelation. The … causal effect of education is identified through exogenous variation in enrollment rates due to differences in landownership …
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that men in post-war marriages were better off in terms of their spouse’s education, this gain amounting to about half a … year of education. By considering heterogeneity across provinces, we find that the effects were more pronounced in more …
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education, in addition to discussing how technological change creates new challenges for the taxation of income and consumption … crises. Finally, we summarize the key issues discussed at the 2021 International Institute of Public Finance Congress and the …
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business world and in education. While the scientific literature has largely documented the benefits of mindfulness meditation …
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Randomized experiments are often viewed as the "gold standard" of scientific evidence, but people's scepticism towards experiments has compromised their viability in the past. We study preferences for experimental policy evaluations in a representative survey in Germany (N1,900). We find that a...
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development. It affects human capital through both religious and secular education. It affects population and labor by influencing …
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