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 … contribute less to public goods, and become less risk averse. Jews more strongly reciprocate as an employee in a bilateral labor …

simple. Although Judaism has used a whole host of restrictions on competition and has had its share of legislation to promote … survival and perpetuation of Judaism …

In the context of interwar Poland, we find that Jews tended to be more literate than non Jews, but show that this … finding is driven by a composition effect. In particular, most Jews lived in cities and most non-Jews lived in rural areas …

The exodus of Soviet Jews to Israel in the 1990s was a unique event. The immigration wave was distinctive for its large …

The exodus of Soviet Jews to Israel in the 1990s was a unique event. The extraordinary experience of Israel, which has …

towards intermarriage with Jews. At the same time, our empirical analysis also cautions against using intermarriage as a …

We document a statistical association between the severity of the persecution and mass murder of Jews (the Holocaust …. Before World War II, Russian Jews were predominantly in white collar (middle class) occupations and the Holocaust appears to …

assimilation into the broader society, but might make it more difficult to retain cultural identity …