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Religion and income : heterogeneity between countries
Bettendorf, Leon; Dijkgraaf, Elbert - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003645149
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Religion and income
Bettendorf, Leon; Dijkgraaf, Elbert - 2008
influence of religion on income. The violation of the homogeneity assumption would have two consequences. First, results based …-country data in this type of research. Data at household level of the European and World Values Survey are pooled for 25 Western … countries. We estimate simultaneously an income and a religion equation to correct for the endogeneity of religiosity. We find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011374426
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The bicausal relation between religion and income
Bettendorf, Leon; Dijkgraaf, Elbert - 2005
In this paper the relation between religion and income is investigated using a micro-dataset for the Netherlands …. Religiosity is measured by religious membership and by participation. Instead of estimating separately a religion and an income … approach, both religious measures are found to decrease significantly income and income is found to affect negatively religion …
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The breakdown of morale
Vikander, Nick - 2009
This paper studies how morale in teams can break down. It interprets high morale as team members working together productively, either because of a sense of fairness or because of implicit incentives from repeated interactions. Team members learn that lay-offs will occur at a fixed future date,...
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The breakdown of morale
Vikander, Nick - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003830597
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Attributions and consequences of trust : an application in a retail setting
Verbeke, Willem J. M. I.; Hessels, Marco; Linden, Danny … - 1996
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000938519
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The evolution of morality
Veelen, Matthijs van - 2020
Most of the literature on the evolution of human pro-sociality looks at reasons why evolution made us not play the Nash equilibrium in prisoners' dilemmas or public goods games. We suggest that in order to understand human morality, and human prosocial behaviour, we should look at reasons why...
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Counting what counts : moral considerations and market surplus
Koster, Paul - 2023
Public benefit-cost analysis of market policies often relies on a particular definition of market surplus that adds up consumer and producer surplus and external costs. This paper provides an overview of conceptual strategies to deal with moral considerations and then develops an adjusted market...
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Spoiling the party : experimental evidence on the willingness to transmit inconvenient ethical information
Mol, Jantsje M.; Soraperra, Ivan; Weele, Joël J. van der - 2023
Information about the consequences of our consumption choices can be unwelcome, and people sometimes avoid it. We investigate a situation where one person possesses information that is inconvenient for another, and study why and when they decide to transmit that information. We introduce a...
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Homo Moralis and regular altruists II
Akdeniz, Aslihan; Graser, Christopher; Veelen, Matthijs van - 2023
Alger and Weibull (2013) ask the question whether a combination of assortative matching and incomplete information leads to the evolution of moral or altruistic preferences. Their central result states that Homo Hamiltonenis - a type that has moral preferences with a morality parameter equal to...
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