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Religion as an unemployment insurance and the basis of support for public safety nets : the case of Latin America and the Caribbean

Pecha, Camilo; Ruprah, Inder S. - 2015

This paper explores the role of religion in mitigating the degree to which unemployment reduces subjective well … method to tease out a causal relation between religion and well-being. We find that religion acts as a buffer: Unemployed …

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Why does the amount of income redistribution differ between United States and Europe? : the Janus face of Switzerland

Akkoyunlu, Sule; Neustadt, Ilja; Zweifel, Peter - 2009 - Rev. version

Mobility ; Openness ; Political Economy ; Beliefs ; Religion ; Immigration …

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Religion and cooperation in a public goods experiment

Anderson, Lisa R.; Mellor, Jennifer M. - In: Economics letters 105 (2009) 1, pp. 58-60

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Do religious beliefs explain preferences for income redistribution? : experimental evidence

Neustadt, Ilja - 2010

Due to the mixed empirical evidence bearing on the economic determinants, beliefs have been at the center of attention of research into preferences for income redistribution. We elicit preferences for income redistribution through a Discrete Choice Experiment performed in 2008 in Switzerland and...

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Do more ethnically and religiously diverse countries have lower democratization?

Akdede, Sacit Hadi - In: Economics letters 106 (2010) 2, pp. 101-104

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Religious organizations

Levy, Gilat; Razin, Ronny - 2010 - This version: November 2009

beliefs and participation, the relation between the size of the religion and the intensity of its members’ beliefs, religious … segregation and religious conflicts. -- Economics of Religion ; Religion ; Organizations ; Beliefs …