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Chiswick, Carmel Ullman - 2010

This paper provides an overview of the relationship between economics and religion. It first considers the effects of … economic incentives in the religious marketplace on consumersﾒ demand for "religion." It then shows how this demand affects … religious marketplace and the related "marketplace for ideas" in a religiously pluralistic society. Empirical evidence is …

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Where to Look for the Morals in Markets?

Sutter, Matthias - 2016

Markets are ubiquitous in our daily life and, despite many imperfections, they are a great source of human welfare. Nevertheless, there is a heated recent debate on whether markets erode social responsibility and moral behavior. In fact, competitive pressure on markets may create strong...

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Incorporating Conditional Morality into Economic Decisions

Masclet, David - 2019

We present a framework that incorporates both moral motivations and fairness considerations into utility. The main idea is that individuals face a preference trade-off between their material individual interest and their desire to follow moral norms. In our model, we assume that moral motivation...

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Corrupted by Algorithms? How Ai-Generated and Human-Written Advice Shape (Dis)Honesty

Leib, Margarita; Köbis, Nils; Rilke, Rainer Michael; … - 2023

Artificial Intelligence (AI) increasingly becomes an indispensable advisor. New ethical concerns arise if AI persuades people to behave dishonestly. In an experiment, we study how AI advice (generated by a Natural-Language-processing algorithm) affects (dis)honesty, compare it to equivalent...

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The Asymmetry of Population Ethics : Experimental Social Choice and Dual-Process Moral Reasoning

Spears, Dean - 2019

Population ethics is widely considered to be exceptionally important and exceptionally difficult. One key source of …

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Unethical Behavior and Group Identity in Contests

Bénistant, Julien - 2019

Using a real-effort experiment, we study whether group identity affects unethical behavior in a contest game. We vary whether minimal group identity is induced or not, whether individuals have to report their own outcome or the outcome of their competitor, and whether pairs of competitors share...

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Christianity and Infant Health in India

Menon, Nidhiya - 2015

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

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The Role of Faith and Faith Schooling in Educational, Economic, and Faith Outcomes

McKendrick, Andrew - 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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Clash of Cultures : Muslims and Christians in the Ethnosizing Process

Constant, Amelie; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2021

, assimilation, separation and marginalization. Christians adapt more easily to the German society than Muslims. Immigrants with …

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The Economic Approach to Personality, Character and Virtue

Heckman, James J.; Galaty, Bridget; Tian, Haihan - 2023

economics of virtue ethics. Character traits and personality are not considered immutable in either field. They are shaped by … content to virtue ethics and suggest what virtue ethics contributes to the study of economic models …

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