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The "Out of Africa" hypothesis, human genetic diversity, and comparative economic development

Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2012

This research argues that deep-rooted factors, determined tens of thousands of years ago, had a significant effect on the course of economic development from the dawn of human civilization to the contemporary era. It advances and empirically establishes the hypothesis that in the course of the...

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Conflicting Identities: Cosmopolitan or Anxious? Appreciating Concerns of Host Country Population Improves Attitudes Towards Immigrants

Stöhr, Tobias; Wichardt, Philipp - 2019

This paper connects insights from the literature on cosmopolitan values in political science, anxiety in social psychology, and identity economics in a vignette-style experiment. We asked German respondents about their attitudes towards a Syrian refugee, randomizing components of his description...

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Adherence to Cultural Norms and Economic Incentives: Evidence from Fertility Timing Decisions

Chabé-Ferret, Bastien - 2016

I analyze the interplay between culture and economic incentives in decision-making. To this end, I study birth timing decisions of second generation migrant women to France and the US. Only the probability to have three or more children increases with the home country fertility norm, whereas the...

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Clash of Cultures: Muslims and Christians in the Ethnosizing Process

Constant, Amelie; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

The paper explores the evolution of ethnic identities of two important and distinct immigrant religious groups. Using data from Germany, a large European country with many immigrants, we study the adaptation processes of Muslims and Christians. Individual data on language, culture, societal...

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Religion and Economic Development: Past, Present, and Future

Becker, Sascha O.; Panin, Amma; Pfaff, Steven; Rubin, Jared - 2025

This chapter examines the role of religion in economic development, both historically and today. Religion's influence varies globally, with high religiosity in countries like Pakistan and low rates in China. Despite declines in some Western countries, religion remains influential worldwide, with...

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The implications of cultural background on labour market choices: The case of religion and entrepreneurship

Nunziata, Luca; Rocco, Lorenzo - 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...

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Unravelling secularization: an international study

Brañas-Garza, Pablo; García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, … - 2007

The current study examines individuals who were raised in a certain religion and at some stage of their life left it. Currently, they define their religious affiliation as 'no religion'. A battery of explanatory variables (country-specific ones, personal attributes and marriage variables) was...

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School competition and students' entrepreneurial intentions: International evidence using historical Catholic roots of private schooling

Falck, Oliver; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010

School choice research mostly focuses on academic outcomes. Policymakers increasingly view entrepreneurial traits as a non-cognitive outcome important for economic growth. We use international PISA-2006 student-level data to estimate the effect of private-school competition on students'...

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Asabiyya: re-interpreting value change in globalized societies

Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - 2009

. The World Values Survey provided a data framework of global value change, whose quantitative results led Barro (2004) to … is whether modernization without spiritual values in a globalized world economy and world society possible in the long … current world crisis is far more connected with these dimensions. We conclude that not a society based on fear is needed in …

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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...

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