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Hofstede, Schwartz, Inglehart and beyond. New directions in empirical global value research
Tausch, Arno - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
shift at an enormous speed; and above all, religion and family values can be an important assett in the stability of … research uses data from the World Values Survey project to study the relationship between religion, denominations and economic … original 30 variables and the newly derived factor analytical dimensions: a) economic permissiveness b) traditional religion c …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011274385
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Hofstede, Inglehart and beyond. New directions in empirical global value research
Tausch, Arno - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
shift at an enormous speed; and above all, religion and family values can be an important assett in the stability of … research uses data from the World Values Survey project to study the relationship between religion, denominations and economic … original 30 variables and the newly derived factor analytical dimensions: a) economic permissiveness b) traditional religion c …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011275133
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Searching for religious discrimination among Anganwadi workers in India : an experimental investigation
Dasgupta, Utteeyo; Mani, Subha; Prakarsh Singh - 2016
This paper examines whether, in India, discriminatory practices by government-employed child caregivers along religious lines, lead to differential health outcomes among the care receiving children. Child caregivers participate in a novel allocation game where we incorporate treatments to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011502612
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Who trusts others? : community and individual determinants of social capital in a low income country
Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz - 2016
respondents, while religiosity tends not to play any role. Compared to religion, the effects of institutional trust and local …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011528173
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Immigrants and religion
Chiswick, Carmel Ullman - 2014
the Economics of Religion and the Economics of Immigration, and distinguishes between religiosity per se and an immigrant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010341307
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Testing an EU-candidate's place on the maps of global economic, political and social values : the case of Turkey
Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - 2014
Following the attempt by Alesina and Guiliano (2013) to measure global culture and to project these measurements onto real choropleth geographical world maps, we utilize the data from the World Values Survey (WVS) to arrive at robust measurement scales of global economic, political and social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010354745
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Islamism and gender relations in the muslim world as reflected in recent world values survey data
Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - 2016
Ever since Goldin (1995) proposed the idea that there is a U-shaped female labor force participation rate function in economic development, empirical research is stunned by the question why the countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are characterized by such low rates of female...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450353
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Religious riots and electoral politics in India
Iyer, Sriya; Shrivastava, Anand - 2015
The effect of ethnic violence on electoral results provides useful insights into voter behaviour in democratic societies. Religious riots have claimed more than 14,000 lives in India since 1950. We study the effect of Hindu-Muslim riots on election results in India. We combine data on riots,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388302
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Religion and innovation
Bénabou, Roland; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - 2015
In earlier work (Bénabou, Ticchi and Vindigni 2013) we uncovered a robust negative association between religiosity and patents per capita, holding across countries as well as US states, with and without controls. In this paper we turn to the individual level, examining the relationship between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010509962
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Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis : religion and female employment over time
Fischer, Justina A. V.; Pastore, Francesco - 2015
This study analyses whether the role of religion for employment of married women in Europe has changed over time and … differences by religion among young women, but not among those older than 40 years, which we attribute to an upbringing under …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308458