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Cahuc, Pierre; Algan, Yann - 2004

This paper shows that employment protection is influenced by the male breadwinner conception which is itself shaped by religions. First, by using international individual surveys, we document that Catholics, Muslims and Orthodoxs are more likely to support such "macho values" than Protestants...

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Asabiyya: re-interpreting value change in globalized societies

Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - 2009

This article reflects the renewed interest of economics and the social science discipline in value systems and religion …

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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 with … religion raised in seems to have no effect on pro-sociality, beyond the effect of the current measures of religiosity …

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Understanding the Development of Fundamentalism

Gang, Ira N.; Epstein, Gil S. - 2004

We use economic theory to examine the intensity of fundamentalist sects. Leaders work to enhance their followers? observance level. We model three stylized situations under which fundamentalist groups function, examining the intensity of observance in each. We find that, under reasonable...

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Marital Fertility and Religion : Recent Changes in Spain

Adsera, Alicia - 2004

. I use the 1985 and 1999 Spanish Fertility Surveys to study whether the significance of religion in fertility behavior …

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Earnings inequality in India: has the rise of caste and religion based politics in India had an impact?

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Chakrabarty, Manisha - 2006

Since 1989, there has been a sharp increase in the role of caste and religion in determining political fortunes at both … state and federal levels in India. As a consequence, significant inter-caste and inter-religion differences in earnings have … unexplored. We address this lacuna in the literature, and explore the determinants of the differences in inter-caste and inter-religion …

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Monotheism (from a sociopolitical and economic perspective)

Iyigun, Murat - 2007

The Axial Age, which lasted between 800 B. C. E. and 200 B. C. E., covers an era in which the spiritual foundations of humanity were laid simultaneously and independently in various geographic areas, and all three major monotheisms of Judaism, Christianity and Islam were born between 1200 B. C....

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Is education the panacea for economic deprivation of Muslims? Evidence from wage earners in India, 1987 - 2005

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Chakrabarty, Manisha - 2007

Few researchers have examined the nature and determinants of earnings differentials among religious groups, and none has been undertaken in the context of conflict-prone multi-religious societies like the one in India. We address this lacuna in the literature by examining the differences in the...

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On the origin of the family

Francesconi, Marco; Ghiglino, Christian; Perry, Motty - 2009

This paper presents an overlapping generations model to explain why humans live in families rather than in other pair groupings. Since most non-human species are not familial, something special must be behind the family. It is shown that the two necessary features that explain the origin of the...

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The cult of Theoi: Economic uncertainty and religion

Frijters, Paul; Barón, Juan D. - 2010

Sacrifices to deities occur in nearly all known religions. In this paper, we report on our attempts to elicit this type of religious behaviour towards Theoi in the laboratory. The theory we test is that, when faced with uncertainty, individuals attempt to engage in a reciprocal contract with the...

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