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City beautiful
Carlino, Gerald A. (contributor); Saiz, Albert (contributor) - 2008
The city beautiful movement, which in the early 20th Century advocated city beautification as a way to improve the living conditions and civic virtues of the urban dweller, had languished by the Great Depression. Today, new urban economic theory and policymakers are coming to see the provision...
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Crime and the legalization of recreational marijuana
Dragone, Davide; Prarolo, Giovanni; Paolo Vanin, Paolo; … - 2017
We provide first-pass evidence that the legalization of the cannabis market across US states may be inducing a crime drop. Exploiting the recent staggered legalization enacted by the adjacent states of Washington (end of 2012) and Oregon (end of 2014) we find, combining county-level...
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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 …
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Sinners or saints? : preachers' kids and risky health behaviors
Delaney, Jason; Winters, John V. - 2013
This paper examines parental influence on adolescent risky behavior, focusing on a unique population: children of the clergy, more commonly known as preachers' kids (PKs). We use latent variable and zero-inflated count models to analyze the effect of being a PK on both uptake and intensity of...
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Religion, politician identity and development outcomes : evidence from India
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clots-Figueras, Irma; Cassan, Guilhem; … - 2013
correlated with constituency level voter preferences or characteristics that make religion salient, we use quasi-random variation …
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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...
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The effect of behavioral codes and gender on honesty
Arbel, Yuval; Bar-El, Ronen; Siniver, Erez; Tobol, Yossi - 2014
We examine the effect of adherence to behavioral codes, as measured by the degree of religiosity, on the level of honesty by conducting under-the-cup die experiments. The findings suggest that behavioral codes, which prohibit lying, offset the monetary incentive to lie. The highest level of...
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Effects of religiosity on social behaviour : experimental evidence from a representative sample of spaniards
Brañas-Garza, Pablo; Espín, Antonio M.; Neuman, Shoshana - 2013
This study explores the effect of several personal religion-related variables on social behaviour, using three … "no religion" made decisions closer to rational selfish behaviour in the DG and the UG compared to those who affiliate … religion raised in seems to have no effect on pro-sociality, beyond the effect of the current measures of religiosity …
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The informal labour market in India : transitory or permanent employment for migrants?
Junankar, Pramod N.; Shonchoy, Abu - 2013
This paper studies the characteristics of the workers in the informal economy and whether migrants treat this sector as a temporary location before moving on to the organised or formal sector to improve their life time income and life style. We limit our study to the Indian urban...
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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 …
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