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Human capital affects religious identity : causal evidence from Kenya
Alfonsi, Livia; Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie; … - 2023
We study how human capital and economic conditions causally affect the choice of religious denomination. We utilize a longitudinal dataset monitoring the religious history of more than 5,000 Kenyans over twenty years, in tandem with a randomized experiment (deworming) that has exogenously...
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308458
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009754769
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010354745
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010245996
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010201278
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010341307
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Is religion associated with entrepreneurial activity?
Henley, Andrew - 2014
activity and religious affiliation. The relationship between religion and economic development has attracted recent attention …. A positive association may indicate that religion raises the social acceptability of entrepreneurial activity, by … national boundaries between religion and entrepreneurship. Definitions of entrepreneurship are taken from the Global …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010345124
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A tale of minorities : evidence on religious ethics and entrepreneurship from Swiss census data
Nunziata, Luca; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2014
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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Religion and innovation
Bénabou, Roland; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - 2015
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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