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Health and Christianity: Controlling for Omitted Variable Bias by Using the Data of Twins and Siblings
HONG, DING - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
significant positive health effects of religiosity of Christianity. The results also support the three explanatory mechanisms of … psychological resources. However, the data also suggests that either other channels through which religiosity affects health may …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259644
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Historical Missionary Activity, Schooling, and the Reversal of Fortunes: Evidence from Nigeria
Okoye, Dozie; Pongou, Roland - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper shows that historical missionary activity has had a persistent effect on schooling outcomes, and contributed to a reversal of fortunes wherein historically richer ethnic groups are poorer today. Combining contemporary individual-level data with a newly constructed dataset on mission...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112805
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Dissecting the Act of God: An Exploration of the Effect of Religion on Economic Activity
Carpantier, Jean-Francois; Litina, Anastasia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This research establishes that religiosity has a persistent effect on economic outcomes. First we use a sample of … migrants in the US to establish that religiosity at the country of origin has a long lasting effect on the religiosity of … migrants. Second, exploiting variations in the inherited component of religiosity of migrants, our analysis uncovers the causal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109803
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Religious affiliation and economic development: a recent literature review
Olimid, Anca Parmena - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
study argues that economic development depress religiosity. Subsequent comments will be linked to a much more comprehensive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008560091
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Spellings Commission Report on Affordability and Access to Higher Education: changing demographics, economic crisis and investment in human capital
Orkodashvili, Mariam - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The paper discusses report of The Spellings Commission for Future of Higher Education that was set up to look into the issues facing the higher education system in the U.S., outline the challenges and offer recommendations to tackle the problems. Most importantly, The Spellings Commission Report...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008596361
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A teoria do mercado religioso : evidências empíricas da literatura
Oliveira, Livio Luiz Soares de; Neto, Giácomo Balbinotto - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper deals with the Religious Market Theory. Concepts are presented, drawn of Economics, as, for example, religious commodity, supply and demand for goods and religious services, competition and monopoly in religious market and the degree of regulation in the religious market. We also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112556
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Is fatalism a cultural belief? An empirical analysis on the origin of fatalistic tendencies
Ruiu, Gabriele - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
I maintain that fatalistic tendencies are the output of the interaction between cultural factors (and in particular of religious beliefs) and historical Institutional experience. Using WVS data this idea has been tested against two well known sociological theories on the origin of fatalism:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258730
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African Development,Partnership and Rationality Challenge:An Exposition
NWAOBI, GODWIN - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Since 1950s, most African nations have gained independence from their colonial powers. Fortunately, independence has brought many changes to these nations and these include multi-party democratic government and western education systems. Unfortunately, the Africa’s economy is the least...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259767
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Research and Science Today No. 1(5)/2013
ADAM, Elena; TRIȘCAȘ, Floarea Elena; NICOARĂ, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Research and Science Today Journal is a publication founded in 2011 and it is dedicated to the students of all levels (license, master and doctoral) of faculties in the country and abroad. We want to offer the participants the opportunity to present their scientific works in the following areas:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260601
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Are women in the MENA region really that different from women in Europe? Globalization, conservative values and female labor market participation.
Fischer, Justina AV; Aydıner-Avşar, Nursel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
intensifying economic globalization with deeper religiosity, possibly as a manifestation of self-protection. Global exchange of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011264810