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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...

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Sri Lankan Households a Decade after the Indian Ocean Tsunami

De Alwis, Diana; Noy, Ilan - 2016

We estimate the causal effect of the Indian Ocean tsunami in Sri Lanka on household income and consumption eight years after the event, using a quasi-experimental method. A strong association between area-wide tsunami disaster shock and increases in household income and consumption in the...

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The Cost of Being Under the Weather: Droughts, Floods, and Health Care Costs in Sri Lanka

De Alwis, Diana; Noy, Ilan - 2017

We measure to cost of extreme weather events (droughts and floods) on health care in Sri Lanka. We find that frequently occurring local floods and droughts impose a significant risk to health when individuals are exposed directly to these hazards, and when their communities are exposed, even if...

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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. …

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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 …

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Family Structure and the Education Gender Gap: Evidence from Italian Provinces

Bertocchi, Graziella; Bozzano, Monica - 2013

We investigate the determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in historical perspective with a focus on the influence of family structure. We capture the latter with two indicators: residential habits (nuclear vs. complex families) and inheritance rules (partition vs. primogeniture)....

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The Power of Religious Organizations in Human Decision Processes: Analyzing Voting Behavior

Torgler, Benno; Stadelmann, David; Portmann, Marco - 2013

's recommendations. We find that voting recommendations do indeed matter, implying that even in a secularized world, religion plays a …

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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...

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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...

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Qualifying religion: the role of plural identities for educational production

Boppart, Timo; Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker; … - 2008

capture conservative or progressive values in addition to the cultural characteristics language and religion. Catholic … sociocultural characteristics qualifies the role of religion for educational production. The evidence suggests that Catholicism is …

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