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Fletcher, Erin; Iyigun, Murat - 2009

ecclesiastical conflicts shows that religous fractionalization likely has negative effects on economic growth. -- Conflict ; religion …

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Unravelling secularization : an international study

Brañas-Garza, Pablo (contributor); … - 2007

The current study examines individuals who were raised in a certain religion and at some stage of their life left it …. Currently, they define their religious affiliation as 'no religion'. A battery of explanatory variables (country-specific ones … tendency of individuals to leave their religion is strongly correlated with the degree of strictness of their country and with …

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

Mocan, Naci; Pogorelova, Luiza - 2014

We exploit information on compulsory schooling reforms in 11 European countries, implemented mostly in the 1960s and 70s, to identify the impact of education on religious adherence and religious practices. Using micro data from the European Social Survey, conducted in various years between 2002...

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An economic perspective on religious education : complements and substitutes in a human capital portfolio

Chiswick, Carmel Ullman (contributor) - 2005

religion-specific human capital. It explores some implications of negative externalities between religious and secular … education. Applications include the tension between science and religion during the European Enlightenment and the development …

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Can schools change religious attitudes? : evidence from German state reforms of compulsory religious education

Arold, Benjamin W.; Woessmann, Ludger; Zierow, Larissa - 2022

We study whether compulsory religious education in schools affects students' religiosity as adults. We exploit the staggered termination of compulsory religious education across German states in models with state and cohort fixed effects. Using three different datasets, we find that abolishing...

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Do pro-poor schools reach out to the poor? : location choice of BRAC and ROSC schools in Bangladesh

Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz - 2016

Non-formal schools play an increasingly important role in the delivery of educational services in poor communities, but little systematic evidence is available about their placement choices. We study location choice of "one teacher, one classroom" non-formal primary schools pioneered by BRAC...

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Impact of educational and religious homogamy on marital stability

Kraft, Kornelius; Neimann, Stefanie - 2009

Using a rich panel data set from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we test whether spouses who are similar to each other in certain respects have a lower probability of divorce than dissimilar spouses. We focus on the effect of homogamy with respect to education and church attendance. Gary...

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Religious minorities and provision of public goods : evidence from rural West Bengal

Pranab Kumar Das; Kar, Saibal; Kayal, Madhumanti - 2011

Religious and ethnic minorities across the world face partisan treatment with regard to provision of public goods …

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Identity, dignity and taboos : beliefs as assets

Bénabou, Roland (contributor); Tirole, Jean (contributor) - 2007

We analyze social and economic phenomena involving beliefs which people value and invest in, for affective or functional reasons. Individuals are at times uncertain about their own "deep values" and infer them from their past choices, which then come to define who they areʺ. Identity...

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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

real choropleth geographical world maps, we utilize the data from the World Values Survey (WVS) to arrive at robust …

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