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Moral barriers to birth control access : how the pill changed Dutch women's lives - when religion did not get in the way
Marie, Olivier; Zwiers, Esmée S. - 2021
We investigate how religious beliefs affected the take up of the birth control pill and impacted women's outcomes using the 1970 liberalization of oral contraceptives in the Netherlands. We first document a massive and immediate drop in fertility among minor women, aged 21 or younger, for whom...
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Theravada Buddhism and Thai luxury fashion consumption
Mao, Ning; McAleer, Michael - 2017
This paper reviews the Thai national character according to Hofstede's cultural dimension theory and Komin's nine values cluster (Psychology of the Thai people), analyses the social hierarchy of Thai consumers according to the Luxury 4P Taxonomy (Han et al., 2010), integrates the Theory of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011587631
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Impact of psychological needs on luxury consumption
Mao, Ning; McAleer, Michael; Bai, Shuyu - 2017
This paper examines the impact of psychological needs on luxury consumption. Veblen's Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) invented the term "conspicuous consumption" to describe luxury goods and services, in which Veblen indicated the purpose of luxury consumption was to display wealth and social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011688775
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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 … 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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Happiness and financial satisfaction in Israel : effects of religiosity , ethnicity, and war
Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Romanov, Dimiṭri; … - 2010
We analyze individual satisfaction with life as a whole and satisfaction with the personal financial situation for Israeli citizens of Jewish and Arab descent. Our data set is the Israeli Social Survey (2006). We are especially interested in the impact of the religions Judaism, Islam and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011381986
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346459
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The fast and the studious? : Ramadan observance and student performance
Hanemaaijer, Kyra; Marie, Olivier; Musumeci, Marco - 2023 - This version: April 2023
What are the consequences of religious obligations conflicting with civic duties? We investigate this question by evaluating changes in the performance of practicing Muslim students when end-of-secondary-school exams and Ramadan overlapped in the Netherlands. Using administrative data on exam...
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Decision sciences, economics, finance, business, computing, and big data : connections
Chang, Chia-Lin; McAleer, Michael; Wong, Wing Keung - 2018
This paper provides a review of some connecting literature in Decision Sciences, Economics, Finance, Business …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807780
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Will Islamic banking make the world less risky? : an empirical analysis of capital structure, risk shifting and financial stability
Farooq, Moazzam; Wijnbergen, Sweder van; Zaheer, Sajjad - 2015
We use a classic Merton credit risk framework to argue that Islamic Banking Institutions (IBIs) face less incentive to take on risks than Conventional Banking Institutions (CBI). IBIs have less incentive for risk shifting both in and outside of distress situations. We test and confirm this...
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Who are the behavioral economists and what do they say?
Heukelom, Floris - 2007
The most important financial source for behavioral economics is the Russell Sage Foundation (RSF). The most prominent … behavioral economists among the RSF’s twenty-six member Behavioral Economics Roundtable (BER) are Kahneman, Tversky, Thaler …, Camerer, Loewenstein, Rabin, and Laibson. The theoretical core of behavioral economics made up of the work of these seven …
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