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and efficiency across society as a whole. Agency-cost theory recognizes that incentive conflicts and coordination problems … one sector of society at the expense of another. Each rationale sets different goals and assigns responsibiliy for …
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Economics and ethics both offer important perspectives on our society, but they do so from two different viewpoints … – the central focus of economics is how the price system in our economy values resources; the central focus of ethics is the … moral evaluation of actions in our society. The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) forces humanity to confront new areas …
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We present an infinite-horizon model of moral standards where self-esteem and unconscious drives play key roles. In the model, an individual receives random temptations (such as bribe offers) and must decide which to resist. Individual actions depend both on conscious intent and a type...
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We study the causal impact of religiosity through a randomized evaluation of an evangelical Protestant Christian values and theology education program delivered to thousands of ultra-poor Filipino households. Six months after the program ended, treated households have higher religiosity and...
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This essay shows that government credit-allocation schemes generate incentive conflicts that undermine the quality of bank supervision and eventually produce banking crisis. For political reasons, most countries establish a regulatory culture that embraces three economically contradictory...
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cultural heterogeneity, the world's geographical fragmentation by ethic and religious traits, at any given time. Finally, the …
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Throughout the Western world, people's policy views are correlated across domains in a strikingly similar fashion. This …
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between religion and health. The topic is particularly germane for the health of women and of the elderly, who are much more … likely to be religious. In this paper, I use data from the Gallup World Poll to study the within and between country … nationally representative samples to study the correlates of religion within and between more than 140 countries using more than …
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Questions about current and prior religion adherence from the International Social Survey Program and the World Values … religion adherence classified into eight major types. In a theoretical model based on rational individual choice, the frequency …;wrongquot; religion. Empirical findings for a panel of countries accord with several hypotheses: religious-conversion rates are positively …
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