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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...
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Does Protestantism favour the market economy more than Catholicism does? We provide a novel quasi-experimental way to answer this question by comparing Protestant and Catholic minorities using Swiss census data from 1970 to 2000. Exploiting the strong adhesion of religious minorities to their...
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Does culture affect female labor supply? In this paper, we address this question using a recent approach to measuring … the effects of culture on economic outcomes, i.e. the epidemiological approach. We focus on migrants, who come from … behavior. We also extend the epidemiological approach to analyze the effects of religion on female labor supply. More …
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empirical estimation that employs data from 32 countries (included in the International Social Survey Program: Religion II … ; religion ; fertility ; secularization ; ISSP …
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We investigate how the intensity of Ramadan affects educational outcomes by exploiting spatio-temporal variation in annual fasting hours. Longer fasting hours are related to increases in student performance in a panel of TIMMS test scores (1995-2019) across Muslim countries but not other...
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We investigate the legacy of the former Papal States on modern female condition by comparing Italian municipalities located in a narrow band across the border between the former Papal States and the former Grand Duchy of Tuscany. While in the Papal States gender inequality was particularly...
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religion and environmental engagement, including pro-environmental attitudes and behaviours.Empirical results are diverse and … religion. This paper contributes to the literature by examining the question in a predominantly Roman Catholic European Union …
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This chapter surveys the recent social science literature on religion in economic history, covering both socioeconomic … causes and consequences of religion. Following the rapidly growing literature, it focuses on the three main monotheisms … monotheistic character of the Abrahamic religions facilitated a close historical interconnection of religion with political power …
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of immigrants of Muslim and Christian culture who originate from the same country and whose religiosity varies from non …
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Ethnic and religious differentials in labour market outcomes within many countries have been remarkably persistent. Yet one very well-known differential - the Catholic/ Protestant unemployment differential in Northern Ireland - has largely (although not completely) disappeared. This paper charts...
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