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Racial Group Affinity and Religious Giving : Evidence from Congregation-Level Panel Data

Dimitrova-Grajzl, Valentina P. - 2015

Since giving to religious organizations constitutes a substantial portion of total charitable giving, an understanding of the determinants of religious giving is a vital policy concern. Drawing on a novel congregation-level panel dataset, we examine whether religious giving is driven by...

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Immigrants and Gender Roles : Assimilation vs. Culture

Blau, Francine D. - 2015

generations. It focuses particularly on labor supply but, for the second generation, also examines fertility and education …

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International Migration, Transfers of Norms and Home Country Fertility

Beine, Michel A. R.; Docquier, Frédéric; Schiff, Maurice - 2021

This paper examines the relationship between international migration and source country fertility. The impact of … international migration on source country fertility may have a number of causes, including a transfer of destination countries …' fertility norms and an incentive to acquire more education. We provide a rigorous test of the diffusion of fertility norms using …

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Knocking on Heaven's Door? Protestantism and Suicide

Becker, Sascha O. - 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...

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Not the Opium of the People : Income and Secularization in a Panel of Prussian Counties

Becker, Sascha O. - 2013

The interplay between religion and the economy has occupied social scientists for long. We construct a unique panel of income and Protestant church attendance for six waves of up to 175 Prussian counties spanning 1886-1911. The data reveal a marked decline in church attendance coinciding with...

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Earthquakes, Religion, and Transition to Self-Government in Italian Cities

Belloc, Marianna - 2016

This paper presents a unique historical experiment to explore the dynamics of institutional change in the Middle Ages. We have assembled a novel dataset, where information on political institutions for northern-central Italian cities between 1000 and 1300 is matched with detailed information on...

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The Effect of Income on Religiousness

Buser, Thomas - 2014

How does income affect religiousness? Using self-collected survey data, we estimate the effects of income on religious behaviour. As a source of exogenous income variation we use a change in the eligibility criteria for a government cash transfer in Ecuador and apply a regression discontinuity...

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Happiness and Religion

Fidrmuc, Jan - 2015

We use four ways of the European Social Survey, covering 2000 to 2008, to analyze the effect of religion on happiness. Our findings confirm that religious individuals are generally happier than non-religious ones. When we seek to disentangle the effects of belonging to an organized religion from...

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Social Cohesion, Religious Beliefs, and the Effect of Protestantism on Suicide

Becker, Sascha O. - 2015

In an economic theory of suicide, we model social cohesion of the religious community and religious beliefs about afterlife as two mechanisms by which Protestantism increases suicide propensity. We build a unique micro-regional dataset of 452 Prussian counties in 1816-21 and 1869-71, when...

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Economic Freedom and Religion : An Empirical Investigation

Hillman, Arye L. - 2016

There has been much study of the consequences of economic freedom but, outside of the role of political institutions, there has been little study of the determinants of economic freedom. We investigate whether religion affects economic freedom. Our cross-sectional dataset includes 137 countries...

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