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homogeneous student body. Results indicate that for students from Islamic high schools, exposure to peers from different religious …
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The persistence literature in economics and related disciplines connects recent outcomes to events long ago. This influential literature marks a promising development but has drawn criticism. We discuss two prominent examples that ground the rise of the Nazi Party in distant historical roots....
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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...
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, emphasizing redemption, sacrifice, rituals, and communal spirit. This had a major impact on its success: Where the Christian …
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We study how human capital and economic conditions causally affect the choice of religious denomination. We utilize a …
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We use the elements of a macroeconomic production function—physical capital, human capital, labor, and technology … development. It affects human capital through both religious and secular education. It affects population and labor by influencing …
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Can religiosity sway a society's propensity for violence against outgroups? We first introduce two state-year-level religiosity measures for several pre-Enlightenment European states with the frequencies of (i) religious language in book publications and (ii) Christian names of newborns. To...
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I investigate empirically the role of religion and political institutions in policies against human trafficking, using … compared to prosecution policies that mainly target the perpetrators of human trafficking, protection and prevention policies … mainly protect the victims of human trafficking, i.e. predominantly women. The conclusions are consistent with other …
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Martin Luther urged each town to have a girls' school so that girls would learn to read the Gospel, evoking a surge of building girls' schools in protestant areas. Using county- and town-level data from the first Prussian census of 1816, we show that a larger share of Protestants decreased the...
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existing libraries. We show that the innovation advantage also persisted in the long run and had no impact on human capital. …
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