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Religion and Innovation
Bénabou, Roland - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023774
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Love Thy Neighbor : Religion and Prosocial Behavior
Heineck, Guido - 2014
religion enhances prosocial behavior. Evidence from both survey and experimental data however yield mixed results and there is … and church attendance. Despite the historic divide in religion, results in West and East Germany do not differ …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046235
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The Implications of Cultural Background on Labour Market Choices : The Case of Religion and Entrepreneurship
Nunziata, L. - 2011
We suggest a methodology for identifying the implications of alternative cultural and social norms embodied by religious denomination on labour market outcomes, by estimating the differential impact of Protestantism versus Catholicism on the propensity to be an entrepreneur, on the basis of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118057
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Education, Social Mobility and Religious Movements : A Theory of the Islamic Revival in Egypt
Binzel, Christine - 2013
. Developing a behavioral model of religion, we then characterize conditions under which a temporary decline in social mobility … produces a large and long-lasting rise in religious participation. Religion in our model helps to cope with loss, which occurs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013085059
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The Labor Market Behavior of Married Women with Young Children in the U.S : Have Differences by Religion Disappeared?
Lehrer, Evelyn L. - 2013
Using data from the 2006-2010 National Survey of Family Growth, conducted in the United States, we study the role of religious affiliation and participation in the labor supply behavior of non-Hispanic married women with young children. We estimate ordered probit models with a trichotomous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013085065
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Effects of Religiosity on Social Behaviour : Experimental Evidence from a Representative Sample of Spaniards
Brañas-Garza, Pablo - 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/10013073852
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A Tale of Minorities : Evidence on Religious Ethics and Entrepreneurship from Swiss Census Data
Nunziata, L. - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057917
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Migration and Urbanisation in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Bakker, Jan - 2016
Under apartheid, black South Africans were severely restricted in their choice of location and many were forced to live in homelands. Following the abolition of apartheid they were free to migrate. Given gravity, a town nearer to the homelands can be expected to receive a larger inflow of people...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012985650
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Former Homeland Areas and Unemployment in South Africa : A Decomposition Approach
Magejo, Prudence - 2020
This study estimates and decomposes the unemployment rate gap between former and non-former homeland areas in South Africa. We apply the Oaxaca-Blinder (1973) decomposition technique to the 2011 population census community profiles at main place level to identify the factors underpinning...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012842046
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The Importance of Cognitive Domains and the Returns to Schooling in South Africa : Evidence from Two Labor Surveys
Nikolov, Plamen - 2020
Numerous studies have considered the important role of cognition in estimating the returns to schooling. How cognitive abilities affect schooling may have important policy implications, especially in developing countries during periods of increasing educational attainment. Using two longitudinal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012835252