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A Gift is Not Always a Gift : Gift Exchange in a Voucher Experiment
Becker, Sascha O. - 2011
Different from traditional gift exchange experiments, we study a field experiment where a random subsample of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123801
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013030325
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013002947
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Sanctioning and Trustworthiness across Ethnic Groups : Experimental Evidence from Afghanistan
Bartos, Vojtech - 2018
using a trust game among ethnically diverse subjects in Afghanistan. In the experiment, we manipulate i) sanctioning and ii …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910622
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A Gift is not Always a Gift: Gift Exchange in a Voucher Experiment
Becker, Sascha O.; Messer, Dolores; Wolter, Stefan C. - CESifo - 2011
Different from traditional gift exchange experiments, we study a field experiment where a random subsample of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009144874
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The Preoccupation of the United Nations with Israel: Evidence and Theory
Becker, Raphael N.; Hillman, Arye L.; Potrafke, Niklas; … - CESifo - 2014
quantitative criteria to confirm that Israel is subject to discrimination. To explain the motives for discrimination, we present a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010948855
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123215
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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 … doubt on causal interpretations of the religion-economy nexus in Prussian secularization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086410
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013052068
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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 … 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/10013018703