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Medieval Anti-Semitism, Weimar Social Capital, and the Rise of the Nazi Party: A Reconsideration
Guinnane, Timothy W.; Hoffman, Philip - 2022
papers' contention that deeply rooted culture and social capital fueled the Nazi rise. The broader lesson is that research of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470353
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Worldviews and Intergenerational Altruism: A Comparison of Turkish People Living in Turkey and Germany
Akkemik, K. Ali; Bulut, Mehmet; Dittrich, Marcus; … - 2017
In this paper, we examine and compare the impact of cultural differences on intergenerational altruism in Turkish people living in Turkey and in Germany, using the anthropological concept of worldview. Data were gathered from four surveys: nationwide surveys in Turkey and Germany, an online...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011657125
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Measuring Religion from Behavior: Climate Shocks and Religious Adherence in Afghanistan
Dube, Oeindrila; Blumenstock, Joshua E.; Callen, Michael - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470372
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Measuring Religion from Behavior : Climate Shocks and Religious Adherence in Afghanistan
Dube, Oeindrila; Blumenstock, Joshua Evan; Callen, Michael - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014241308
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Institutional Transplant and Cultural Proximity: Evidence from Nineteenth-Century Prussia
Lecce, Giampaolo; Ogliari, Laura - 2015
stronger ties to French culture exhibit a more effective transplant even when controlling for institutional proximity. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431190
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A Structural Topic Model of the Features and the Cultural Origins of the Baconian Program
Grajzl, Peter; Murrell, Peter - 2017
We use machine-learning methods to study the features and origins of the Baconian program, a cultural and methodological paradigm viewed as providing the intellectual roots for modern economic growth. After building a machine-readable corpus of Bacon's works, we estimate a structural topic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011657164
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The invisible hand plays dice : eventualities in religious markets
Poutvaara, Panu; Wagener, Andreas - 2004
Religious participation is much more widespread in the United States than in Europe, while Europeans tend to view sects more suspiciously than Americans. We propose an explanation for these patterns without assuming differences in preferences or market fundamentals. Religious markets may have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261227
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Emotion at Stake - The Role of Stake Size and Emotions in a Power-to-take Game Experiment in China with a Comparison to Europe
Bosman, Ronald; Hennig-Schmidt, Heike; van Winden, … - 2016
This paper experimentally investigates how monetary incentives and emotions influence behaviour in a two-player power-to-take game. In this game, one player can claim any part of the other's endowment (take rate), and the second player can respond by destroying his or her own endowment. We focus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011480441
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Not the opium of the people: Income and secularization in a panel of Prussian counties
Becker, Sascha O.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2013
The interplay between religion and the economy has occupied social scientists for long. We construct a unique panel of … doubt on causal interpretations of the religion-economy nexus in Prussian secularization. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291671
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Happiness and Religion
Fidrmuc, Jan; Tunali, Cigdem Börke - 2015
We use four ways of the European Social Survey, covering 2000 to 2008, to analyze the effect of religion on happiness … the effects of belonging to an organized religion from the effect of holding religious beliefs, we find that the former … lowers happiness while the latter raises it. We interpret this as evidence that the tangible aspects of religion (such as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307097