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Does the Field of Study Influence Students' Political Attitudes?
Fischer, Mira; Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas; … - 2015
of study. These differences can in most cases be attributed to self-selection. A notable exception is economics. Even … though self-selection is also important, training in economics has an unambiguous influence on the political attitudes: by … the time of graduation, economics students are about 6.2 percentage points more likely than they were as freshmen to agree …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388219
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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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On the arbitrariness of consumption
Whalley, John; Zhang, Shunming - 2009
We discuss a simple model of choices of joint consumption by a working couple who place maintenance of their marriage (relationship) above all else. Any proposal made by one partner seeking to provide maximal utility to the other so as to preserve the marriage, in the case where preferences of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264574
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Bread and Bullets
Akerlof, George A.; Snower, Dennis - 2016
Standard economics omits the role of narratives (the stories that people tell themselves and others) when they make all …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431284
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School competition and students' entrepreneurial intention: International evidence using historical Catholic roots of private schooling
Falck, Oliver; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010
School choice research mostly focuses on academic outcomes. Policymakers increasingly view entrepreneurial traits as a non-cognitive outcome important for economic growth. We use international PISA-2006 student-level data to estimate the effect of private-school competition on students'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270498
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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
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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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Happiness and financial satisfaction in Israel: Effects of religiosity, ethnicity, and war
van Praag, Bernard M. S.; Romanov, Dmitri; … - 2010
We analyze individual satisfaction with life as a whole and satisfaction with the personal financial situation for Israeli citizens of Jewish and Arab descent. Our data set is the Israeli Social Survey (2006). We are especially interested in the impact of the religions Judaism, Islam and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274729
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Knocking on heaven's door? Protestantism and suicide
Becker, Sascha O.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2011
We model the effect of Protestant vs. Catholic denomination in an economic theory of suicide, accounting for differences in religious-community integration, views about man's impact on God's grace, and the possibility of confessing sins. We test the theory using a unique micro-regional dataset...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274786