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Hofstede, Schwartz, Inglehart and beyond. New directions in empirical global value research
Tausch, Arno - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
shift at an enormous speed; and above all, religion and family values can be an important assett in the stability of … research uses data from the World Values Survey project to study the relationship between religion, denominations and economic … original 30 variables and the newly derived factor analytical dimensions: a) economic permissiveness b) traditional religion c …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011274385
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Hofstede, Inglehart and beyond. New directions in empirical global value research
Tausch, Arno - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
shift at an enormous speed; and above all, religion and family values can be an important assett in the stability of … research uses data from the World Values Survey project to study the relationship between religion, denominations and economic … original 30 variables and the newly derived factor analytical dimensions: a) economic permissiveness b) traditional religion c …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011275133
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Religion, Economy, and State : Economic Thought of Al-Mawardi in Adab Al-Dunya Wa-Al-Din
Jaelani, Aan - 2016
The relation between religion, economy and the country became a major topic in the development of public welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012987223
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Dishonest Behavior : Sin Big or Go Home
Aimone, Jason A. - 2019
Economic agents face many different types of economic incentives when making financial and moral decisions. We provide experimental data from a population that uniquely responds to incentives to lie compared to previously studied populations. We conduct a standard 6-sided die rolling lying study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479697
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Charity Begins at Home (and at School) : Effects of Religion-Based Discrimination in Education
Lavy, Victor - 2018
Religions often preach preferential treatment of fellow believers. This paper examines whether one's religious status (secular or religious) leads one to discriminate against people with a different religious status; how this affects human capital formation; and whether this discrimination is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480577
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Islam and the State : Religious Education in the Age of Mass Schooling
Bazzi, Samuel - 2020
Public schooling systems are an essential feature of modern states. These systems often developed at the expense of religious schools, which undertook the bulk of education historically and still cater to large student populations worldwide. This paper examines how Indonesia's long-standing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481657
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Religion and Educational Mobility in Africa
Alesina, Alberto - 2020
construct new upward and downward religion-specific intergenerational mobility (IM) statistics. Christian boys and girls have … of religion-specific, institutional, and social conventions on education and opportunity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482489
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Culture, Institutions & the Long Divergence
Bisin, Alberto; Rubin, Jared; Seror, Avner; Verdier, Thierry - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Recent theories of the Long Divergence between Middle Eastern and Western European economies focus on Middle Eastern (over-)reliance on religious legitimacy, use of slave soldiers, and persistence of restrictive proscriptions of religious (Islamic) law. These theories take as exogenous the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482703
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Saints Marching In, 1590-2009
Barro, Robert J. - 2011
The Catholic Church has been making saints for centuries, typically in a two-stage process featuring beatification and canonization. We analyze determinants of rates of beatification and canonization (for non-martyrs) over time and across six world regions. The research uses a recently assembled...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461888
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Religious Identity and Economic Behavior
Benjamin, Daniel J. - 2010
We randomly vary religious identity salience in laboratory subjects to test how identity salience contributes to six hypothesized links from prior literature between religious identity and economic behavior. We find that religious identity salience makes Protestants increase contributions to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462726