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The Fast and the Studious? Ramadan Observance and Student Performance
Hanemaaijer, Kyra; Marie, Olivier; Musumeci, Marco - 2023
What are the consequences of religious obligations conflicting with civic duties? We investigate this question by evaluating changes in the performance of practicing Muslim students when end-of-secondary-school exams and Ramadan overlapped in the Netherlands. Using administrative data on exam...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377152
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329145
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261982
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269858
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271305
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Immigrant Religious Adjustment: An Economic Approach to Jewish Migrations
Chiswick, Carmel Ullman - 2003
An economic theory of immigration and immigrant absorption for a religious minority is developed and applied to Jewish history. Human capital is classified according to whether it is allocative or productive, transferable or location-specific, general or Jewish. Crossclassifying these categories...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272721
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An Economic Perspective on Religious Education : Complements and Substitutes in a Human Capital Portfolio
Chiswick, Carmel Ullman - 2005
religion-specific human capital. It explores some implications of negative externalities between religious and secular … education. Applications include the tension between science and religion during the European Enlightenment and the development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272728
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Economics and religion
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' demand for religion. It then shows how this demand affects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272757
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Egalitarian religion and economics
Chiswick, Carmel Ullman - 2010
The role of women in the ritual of many religions changed dramatically at the end of the 20th century, to the point where full participation by women was the norm by 2000 rather than the rarity that it had been 30 years earlier. This paper considers some aspects of the economic context that help...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272758
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The evolution of secularization: Cultural transmission, religion and fertility theory, simulations and evidence
Bar-El, Ronen; García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana; … - 2010
empirical estimation that employs data from 32 countries (included in the International Social Survey Program: Religion II …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273867