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Iyer, Sriya - 2015

The economics of religion is a relatively new field of research in economics. This survey serves two purposes – it is … examines the insights and research themes that are offered by economists to investigate religion globally in the modern world …. Several factors have influenced the economics of religion: (1) new developments in theoretical models including spatial models …

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Religiosity and crime : evidence from a city-wide shock

Lee, Wang-Sheng; Khalil, Umair; Johnston, David - 2024

This paper estimates the impacts of religiosity on criminal activity using a city-wide shock to religious sentiment from a 2015 Papal visit. Using daily data on all reported offences between 2010 and 2015 in Philadelphia at the census tract level and a difference-in-differences approach, we...

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Religion and innovation

Bénabou, Roland; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - 2015

, imagination and independence in children) to five different measures of religiosity, including beliefs and attendance. We control …

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Compulsory schooling laws and formation of beliefs : education, religion and superstition

Mocan, Naci; Pogorelova, Luiza - 2014

impact of schooling on superstitious beliefs. We find that more education, due to increased mandatory years of schooling …

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Non-profit organizations in a bureaucratic environment

Grout, Paul A. (contributor); … - 2008

increases donated labor. -- Donated labor ; intrinsic motivation ; non-profit organizations ; power within organizations …

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Improving the peer review process : a proposed market system

Frijters, Paul; Torgler, Benno - 2016

The current peer review system suffers from two key problems: promotion of an in-crowd whose methods, opinions and innovations it protects; and failure to represent the opinions and interests of non-peer clients. As a result, whole disciplines orient themselves toward navel-gazing research...

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The sequencing of gift exchange : a field trial

Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2017

There is now an extensive literature on "gift exchange" showing that when principals and agents can trade "gifts" (rewards that should not emerge in a competitive equilibrium), exchange becomes more efficient. However, it is not obvious how gift exchange should be organized if the principal's...

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Inter-institutional cooperation and migrants' financial education : an Italian case study

Nocito, Samuel; Venturini, Alessandra - 2024

This study evaluates the effect of a financial education program on migrants, emphasizing the importance of inter-institutional cooperation. The Italian case study, the "Welcome-ED" project - a partnership between the Municipality of Turin and the Turin Museum of Savings (MoS) - aimed to provide...

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Public implementation eliminates detrimental effects of punishment on human cooperation

Xiao, Erte (contributor); Houser, Daniel (contributor) - 2006

Development of human societies requires cooperation among unrelated individuals and obedience to social norms. Although punishment is widely agreed to be potentially useful in fostering cooperation, many recent results in psychology and economics highlight punishments' failures in this regard....

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Who will be idol? : the importance of social networks for winning on reality shows

Heizler, Odelia; Qimḥî, Ayyāl - 2010

This paper examines, both theoretically and empirically, the effect of social networks and belonging to minority groups (or race) on the probability of winning in reality television shows. We develop a theoretical model that studies viewer behavior by presenting a framework of competition...

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