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Clash of cultures : Muslims and Christians in the ethnosizing process

Constant, Amelie; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2006

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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Religion in economic history: a survey

Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020

-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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The role of faith and faith schooling in educational, economic, and faith outcomes

McKendrick, Andrew; Walker, Ian - 2020

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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Christianity and infant health in India

Menon, Nidhiya; McQueeney, Kathleen - 2015

scientific underpinnings of disease, the advent of Christianity has long-term health implications for India's children today. …

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Tertiary education and prosperity : catholic missionaries to luminosity in India

Castelló-Climent, Amparo; Chaudhary, Latika; … - 2015

This paper estimates the causal impact of tertiary education on luminosity across Indian districts. We address the potential endogeneity of tertiary education using the location of Catholic missionaries in 1911 as an instrument for current tertiary education. We find Catholic missionaries have a...

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From the death of God to the rise of Hitler

Becker, Sascha O.; Voth, Hans-Joachim - 2023

Church only had shallow roots, the Nazis received higher electoral support and saw more party entry. "Shallow Christianity …

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Religion and growth

Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2023

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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What does leadership look like in schools and does it matter for school performance?

Stokes, Lucy; Bryson, Alex; Wilkinson, David - 2019

the leadership roles of deputy and assistant heads and classroom-based teachers with additional leadership … typically employ more staff in leadership roles than community schools. Increases in the number of staff in leadership roles … distributing leadership within schools may only be realised when leaders have sufficient autonomy. …

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How common are bad bosses?

Artz, Benjamin; Goodall, Amanda H.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2018

Bosses play an important role in workplaces. Yet little is currently known about a foundational question. Are the right people promoted to be managers, team leaders, and supervisors? Gallup data and the famous Peter Principle both suggest that incompetent bosses are likely to be all around us....

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Teamwork, leadership and gender

De Paola, Maria; Gioia, Francesca; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2018

work of the team. We find a positive and significant effect of female leadership on team performance. This effect is driven …

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