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Spolaore, Enrico - 2015

We explore the interrelationships between various measures of cultural distance. We first discuss measures of genetic distance, used in the recent economics literature to capture the degree of relatedness between countries. We next describe several classes of measures of linguistic, religious,...

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Culture, Openness, and Finance

Williamson, Rohan - 2012

country's legal system is more important than its religion and language in explaining shareholder rights. However, a country …'s principal religion helps predict the cross-sectional variation in creditor rights better than a country's openness to … international trade mitigates the influence of religion on creditor rights. Religion and language are also important predictors of …

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Does Culture Affect Economic Outcomes?

Guiso, Luigi; Sapienza, Paola; Zingales, Luigi - 2021

Economists have been reluctant to rely on culture as a possible determinant of economic phenomena. The notion of … culture is so broad and the channels through which it can enter the economic discourse so vague that it is difficult to design … testable hypotheses. In this paper we show this does need to be the case. We introduce a narrower definition of culture that …

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Spatial Errors in Count Data Regressions

Bertanha, Marinho - 2014

Count data regressions are an important tool for empirical analyses ranging from analyses of patent counts to measures of health and unemployment. Along with negative binomial, Poisson panel regressions are a preferred method of analysis because the Poisson conditional fixed effects maximum...

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A Method to Construct Geographical Crosswalks with an Application to US Counties Since 1790

Eckert, Fabian - 2020

Empirical researchers often have to map data provided for a "reporting" spatial unit, say counties in 1900, to a "reference" one, say, counties in 2010. We discuss a general method to create such crosswalks: computing the share of the area of each reporting unit nested in a given reference unit....

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Does Secular Education Impact Religiosity, Electoral Participation and the Propensity to Vote for Islamic Parties? Evidence from an Education Reform in a Muslim Country

Cesur, Resul - 2013

Turkey, which is a predominantly Muslim country, enacted an education law in 1997 which increased the compulsory secular education from five to eight years. We employ a unique nation-wide survey of adults in 2012 to investigate the impact of education on religiosity, lifestyles and political...

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Does Religion Affect Economic Growth and Happiness? Evidence from Ramadan

Campante, Filipe R. - 2013

We study the economic effects of religious practices in the context of the observance of Ramadan fasting, one of the central tenets of Islam. To establish causality, we exploit variation in the length of the fasting period due to the rotating Islamic calendar. We report two key, quantitatively...

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Religion and Risky Health Behaviors Among U.S. Adolescents and Adults

Fletcher, Jason M. - 2013

Recent studies analyzing the effects of religion on various economic, social, health and political outcomes have been … to previous studies, we find positive effects of religion on reducing all addictive substance use during adolescence, but …

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Religion, Politician Identity and Development Outcomes : Evidence from India

Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2013

correlated with constituency level voter preferences or characteristics that make religion salient, we use quasi-random variation …

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Religiosity and State Welfare

Dills, Angela K. - 2013

The Catholic sex abuse scandals reduced both membership and religiosity in the Catholic Church. Because government spending on welfare may substitute for the religious provision of social services, we consider whether this plausibly exogenous decline in religiosity affected several measures of...

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