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International Determinants of Religiosity

Barro, Robert J.; McCleary, Rachel M. - 2021

Two important theories of religiosity are the secularization hypothesis and the religion-market model. According to the … depends on the presence of a state religion, regulation of the religion market, suppression of organized religion under … religion tends to increase religiosity, probably because of the subsidies that flow to organized religion. However, in …

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Religion and Political Economy in an International Panel

Barro, Robert J.; McCleary, Rachel M. - 2021

attendance and religious beliefs are positively related to education (thereby conflicting with theories in which religion … and lower fertility. We investigate the effects of official state religions, government regulation of the religion market … the measures of official state religion, government regulation, and religious pluralism …

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A Comparison of Micro and Macro Expenditure Measures Across Countries Using Differing Survey Methods

Barrett, Garry F. - 2013

This paper presents a comparative assessment of the performance of the household expenditure survey programs in Australia, Canada, the UK and US. Cross-country and time series variation in survey methodology and experience is used to assess the role of factors influencing the performance of the...

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The Changing Role of Government in Financing Health Care : An International Perspective

Stabile, Mark - 2013

This paper explores the changing role of government involvement in health care financing policy outside the United States. It provides a review of the economics literature in this area to understand the implications of recent policy changes on efficiency, costs and quality. Our review reveals...

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Boy-Girl Differences in Parental Time Investments : Evidence from Three Countries

Baker, Michael - 2013

We study differences in the time parents spend with girls and boys at preschool ages in Canada, the U.K. and the U.S. We refine previous evidence that fathers commit more time to boys, showing this greater commitment emerges with age and is not present for very young children. We next examine...

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Do Prices and Attributes Explain International Differences in Food Purchases?

Dubois, Pierre - 2013

Food purchases differ substantially across countries. We use detailed household level data from the US, France and the UK to (i) document these differences; (ii) estimate a demand system for food and nutrients, and (iii) simulate counterfactual choices if households faced prices and nutritional...

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Never Waste a Good Crisis : an Historical Perspective on Comparative Corporate Governance

Morck, Randall - 2013

, language, culture, religion, accidents of history (path dependence), and other factors affect these changes because they affect …

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Fiscal Policies and the Prices of Labor : A Comparison of the U.K. And U.S

Mulligan, Casey B. - 2015

This paper measures the 2007-13 evolution of employment tax rates in the U.K. and the U.S., especially as they are influenced by changes in tax and safety net benefit rules. The magnitudes of the U.S. changes are greater, in the direction of taxing a greater fraction of the value created by...

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How's Life at Home? New Evidence on Marriage and the Set Point for Happiness

Grover, Shawn - 2015

Subjective well-being research has often found that marriage is positively correlated with well-being. Some have argued that this correlation may be result of happier people being more likely to marry. Others have presented evidence suggesting that the well-being benefits of marriage are...

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Unprecedented Actions : The Federal Reserve's Response to the Global Financial Crisis in Historical Perspective

Mishkin, Frederic S. - 2015

Interventions by the Federal Reserve during the financial crisis of 2007-2009 were generally viewed as unprecedented and in violation of the rules—notably Bagehot's rule—that a central bank should follow to avoid the time-inconsistency problem and moral hazard. Reviewing the evidence for...

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