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as ethnicity and religion. In addition, the "intersectional" interactions between these different characteristics are a … that such a concept of racism is not very helpful in understanding actual patterns of discrimination. Phenotype, ethnicity … and religion each have independent effects on discrimination. Tendencies towards discrimination differ greatly between …
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using a trust game among ethnically diverse subjects in Afghanistan. In the experiment, we manipulate i) sanctioning and ii …
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Jordan. Using a simple sharing experiment, we find only little discrimination. Among the Jordanian children, however, we see …We measure the prevalence of discrimination between Jordanian host and Syrian refugee children attending school in … correlated with the degree of discrimination, suggesting that discriminatory preferences are being transmitted through parental …
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In an artefactual field experiment, we implemented a crowdfunding campaign for an institute's summer party and compared … contribution framing responded more strongly to reward thresholds and suggestions. An additional survey experiment on MTurk …
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How does scarcity affect individual willingness to share and willingness to enforce sharing from others? Sharing in poor communities gains importance as an insurance mechanism during adverse shocks, yet shocks make it costlier to share. I conducted repeated economic experiments in both a lean...
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—together with standard growth models to frame the role of religion in economic growth. Unifying a growing literature, we argue that … religion can enhance or impinge upon economic growth through all four elements because it shapes individual preferences …, societal norms, and institutions. Religion affects physical capital accumulation by influencing thrift and financial …
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importance of religion in individuals' lives. We combine individual survey response data for more than 311,000 individuals from …
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In this paper, I test the effects of religious norms on the provision of public goods. My evidence is drawn from public goods experiments that I ran with regional bureaucrats in Tomsk and Novosibirsk, Russia. I introduce three treatments, which I define as degrees of Eastern Orthodox...
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We study whether compulsory religious education in schools affects students’ religiosity as adults. We exploit the staggered termination of compulsory religious education across German states in models with state and cohort fixed effects. Using three different datasets, we find that abolishing...
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large-scale experiment with a heterogeneous population sample from Germany. The majority of experimental participants …
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