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Weber revisited : the protestant ethic and the spirit of nationalism

Kersting, Felix; Wohnsiedler, Iris; Wolf, Nikolaus - 2020

We revisit Max Weber's hypothesis on the role of Protestantism for economic development. We show that nationalism is crucial to both, the interpretation of Weber's Protestant Ethic and empirical tests thereof. For late nineteenth-century Prussia we reject Weber's suggestion that Protestantism...

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Pacem in terris : are papal visits good news for human rights?

Endrich, Marek; Gutmannn, Jerg - 2022

We analyze the effect of state visits by the Catholic pope on human rights in the host country to understand how a small theocracy like the Vatican can exert disproportionate political influence in international politics. Our theoretical model of the strategic interaction between the Catholic...

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Voodoo versus fishing committees : the role of traditional and contemporary institutions in fischeries management

Alonso, Elena Briones; Houssa, Romain; Verpoorten, Marijke - 2015

institution embedded in the Voodoo religion and a recent secular institution in the form of fishing committees. Using household …

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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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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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Democracy and income in-equality : an empirical analysis

Grâdšṭayn, Marq; Milanović, Branko; Ying, Yvonne - 2001

proxied by a country s dominant religion seems to be related to inequality. But in addition, in Judeo-Christian societies …

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Worldviews and intergenerational altruism : a comparison of Turkish people living in Turkey and Germay

Akkemik, Kucik 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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Social cohesion, religious beliefs, and the effect of Protestantism on suicide

Becker, Sascha O.; Woessmann, Ludger - 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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Happiness and religion

Fidrmuc, Jan; Tunali, Çiğdem 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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Prussia disaggregated : the demography of its universe of localities in 1871

Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco - 2020

, villages, and manors in 1871 Prussia. We study religion, literacy, fertility, and group segregation by location type (town …

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