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Hamas, Taliban and the Jewish Underground : An Economist'S View of Radical Religious Militias

Berman, Eli - 2021

Can rational choice modeling explain destructive behavior among the Taliban, Hama and other radical religious militias? This paper proposes a club good framework which emphasizes the function of voluntary religious organizations as efficient providers of local public goods in the absence of...

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Sect, Subsidy, and Sacrifice : an Economist'S View of Ultra-Orthodox Jews

Berman, Eli; Ḳlinov-Malul, Rut - 2021

The Israeli Ultra-Orthodox population doubles each seventeen years. With 60 % of prime aged males attending Yeshiva rather than working, that community is rapidly outgrowing its resources. Why do fathers with families in poverty choose Yeshiva over work? Draft deferments subsidize Yeshiva...

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The Economics of Religion, Jewish Survival and Jewish Attitudes Toward Competition in Torah Education

Carlton, Dennis W.; Weiss, Avi - 2021

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 …

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Religious Identity and Economic Behavior

Benjamin, Daniel J. - 2010

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

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Behavioral Economics and the Demand for Alcohol : Results from the Nlsy97

Saffer, Henry - 2012

The behavioral economic model presented in this paper argues that the effect of advertising and price differ by past consumption levels. The model predicts that advertising is more effective in reducing consumption at high past consumption levels but less effective at low past consumption...

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Wealth Accumulation and Housing Choices of Young Households : An Exploratory Investigation

Haurin, Donald R. - 2015

This paper describes the wealth accumulation of American youth and relates this behavior to their eventual housing … choices. We develop a data set that links wealth profiles of youth with constant- quality house prices and tenure choice. A … panel data set is compiled for youth age 20-33 for the years 1985 through 1990. We construct wealth profiles for each …

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Even for Teenagers, Money Does Not Grow on Trees : Teenage Substance Use and Budget Constraints

Markowitz, Sara - 2010

This paper is about the spending choices of youth, with a particular focus on how the demand for cigarettes, alcohol … and marijuana are influenced by changes in the prices of other products. Youth tend to have small incomes and limited …

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Israel's Immigration Story : Winners and Losers

Razin, Assaf - 2018

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

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Israel's Immigration Story : Globalization Lessons

Razin, Assaf - 2017

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

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Kinship, Cooperation, and the Evolution of Moral Systems

Enke, Benjamin - 2017

Across the social sciences, a key question is how societies manage to enforce cooperative behavior in social dilemmas such as public goods provision or bilateral trade. According to an influential body of theories in psychology, anthropology, and evolutionary biology, the answer is that humans...

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