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Medieval anti-semitism, Weimar social capital, and the rise of the nazi party : a reconsideration
Guinnane, Timothy; Hoffman, Philip - 2022
papers' contention that deeply rooted culture and social capital fueled the Nazi rise. The broader lesson is that research of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013453958
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Culture, institutions & the long divergence
Bisin, Alberto; Rubin, Jared; Seror, Avner; Verdier, Thierry - 2021
institutional environment. In this paper, we address these issues by modeling the joint evolution of institutions and culture. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012433961
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011624230
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Institutional transplant and cultural proximity : evidence from nineteenth-century Prussia
Lecce, Giampaolo; Ogliari, Laura - 2015 - This version: November 2015
stronger ties to French culture exhibit a more effective transplant even when controlling for institutional proximity. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011405198
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Historical antisemitism, ethnic specialization, and financial development
D'Acunto, Francesco; Prokopczuk, Marcel; Weber, Michael - 2017
For centuries, Jews in Europe have specialized in financial services. At the same time, they have been the victims of historical antisemitism on the part of the Christian majority. We find that present-day financial development is lower in German counties where historical antisemitism was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011721571
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Measuring religion from behavior : climate shocks and religious adherence in Afghanistan
Dube, Oeindrila; Blumenstock, Joshua E.; Callen, Michael - 2022
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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A structural topic model of the features and the cultural origins of the Baconian program
Grajzl, Peter; Murrell, Peter - 2017
We use machine-learning methods to study the features and origins of the Baconian program, a cultural and methodological paradigm viewed as providing the intellectual roots for modern economic growth. After building a machine-readable corpus of Bacon's works, we estimate a structural topic...
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Religious practice and student performance : evidence from Ramadan fasting
Hornung, Erik; Schwerdt, Guido; Strazzeri, Maurizio - 2021
We investigate how the intensity of Ramadan affects educational outcomes by exploiting spatio-temporal variation in annual fasting hours. Longer fasting hours are related to increases in student performance in a panel of TIMMS test scores (1995–2019) across Muslim countries but not other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012643548
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Jesus speaks Korean : christianity and literacy in colonial Korea
Becker, Sascha O.; Won, Cheongyeon - 2021
In the mid 19th century, pre-colonial Korea under the Joseon dynasty was increasingly isolated and lagging behind in its economic development. Joseon Korea was forced to sign unequal treaties with foreign powers as a result of which Christian missionaries entered the country and contributed to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012415933
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Religion in economic history : a survey
Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020
This paper surveys the recent social science literature on religion in economic history, covering both socioeconomic … causes and consequences of religion. Following the rapidly growing literature, it focuses on the three main monotheisms … monotheistic character of the Abrahamic religions facilitated a close historical interconnection of religion with political power …
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