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scientific underpinnings of disease, the advent of Christianity has long-term health implications for India's children today. …This paper studies child health in India focusing on differences in anthropometric outcomes between the three main … establishing countries were engaged in during India's colonial history. The results are robust to a series of checks for instrument …
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the forefront of tertiary education in colonial India, but they established many high quality colleges following Indian …
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Italy, Brazil and then finally India. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e. government funded but with …
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In India, fluency in English remains a status symbol for the wealthy and educated middle class, while creating a divide …
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The paper explores the evolution of ethnic identities of two important and distinct immigrant religious groups. Using data from Germany, a large European country with many immigrants, we study the adaptation processes of Muslims and Christians. Individual data on language, culture, societal...
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-Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - and on the period up to WWII. Works on Judaism address Jewish occupational specialization …, human capital, emancipation, and the causes and consequences of Jewish persecution. One set of papers on Christianity …
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We examine the roles played by intrinsic religiosity and faith-based education in both short and long-term outcomes among young people in England. England is a good laboratory for this work as it has a substantial share of publicly funded faith schools. This is in contrast to the US, where much...
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Church only had shallow roots, the Nazis received higher electoral support and saw more party entry. "Shallow Christianity …
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We use the elements of a macroeconomic production function - physical capital, human capital, labor, and technology - 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...
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Over the past half century, a literature has developed across a range of disciplines exploring the relationship between religion and environmental engagement, including pro-environmental attitudes and behaviours.Empirical results are diverse and the relationship seems to vary in size and...
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