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Effects of religiosity on social behaviour: Experimental evidence from a representative sample of spaniards
Brañas-Garza, Pablo; Espín, Antonio M.; Neuman, Shoshana - 2013
, bargaining behaviour and sense of fairness/equality, trust, and positive reciprocity. Three dimensions of religiosity are … examined: (i) religious denomination; (ii) the intensity of religiosity, measured by active participation at church services … a standard religious denomination; (ii) among Catholics, intensity of religiosity is the key variable that affects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336038
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Diversity and conflict
Arbath, Cemal Eren; Ashraf, Quamrul. H.; Galor, Oded; … - 2018
This research advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that interpersonal population diversity has contributed significantly to the emergence, prevalence, recurrence, and severity of intrasocietal conflicts. Exploiting an exogenous source of variations in population diversity across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012058636
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Diversity and conflict
Eren Arbath, Cemal; Ashraf, Quamrul H.; Galor, Oded; … - 2019
This research advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that interpersonal population diversity, rather than fractionalization or polarization across ethnic groups, has been pivotal to the emergence, prevalence, recurrence, and severity of intrasocietal conflicts. Exploiting an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012385443
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Bridges or buffers? Motives behind immigrants' religiosity - A comparative study of Europe and the United States
Garcia-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - 2013
This study reviews and evaluates the motives and incentives behind immigrants' religiosity, focusing on the two sides … indicators for the type of incentive - whether immigrants' religiosity serves as a bridge or a buffer in the process of … religiosity of immigrants serves as a bridge between the immigrants and the local population, in Europe it has mainly the function …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336000
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The local geographic origins of Russian-Jewish immigrants, circa 1900
Perlmann, Joel - 2006
This working paper concerns the local origins of Russian-Jewish immigrants to the United States, circa 1900. New evidence is drawn from a large random sample of Russian-Jewish immigrant arrivals in the United States. It provides information on origins not merely by large regions, or even by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266572
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Wealth-income ratios in a small, late-industrializing, welfare-state economy: Sweden, 1810-2014
Waldenström, Daniel - 2015
This paper uses new data on Swedish national wealth over a period of two hundred years to study whether the patterns in wealth-income ratios previously found by Piketty and Zucman (2014) for some very rich and large Western economies extend to smaller countries that were historically backward...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011406159
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Critical periods during childhood and adolescence: A study of adult height among immigrant siblings
van den Berg, Gerard J.; Lundborg, Petter; Nystedt, Paul; … - 2011
We identify the ages that constitute critical periods in children's development towards their adult health status. For this we use data on families migrating into Sweden from countries that are poorer, with less healthy conditions. Long-run health is proxied by adult height. The relation between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275847
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The "Out of Africa" hypothesis, human genetic diversity, and comparative economic development
Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2010
This research argues that deep-rooted factors, determined tens of thousands of years ago, had a signifcant effect on the course of economic development from the dawn of human civilization to the contemporary era. It advances and empirically establishes the hypothesis that, in the course of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284053
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Dynamics and stagnation in the Malthusian epoch: Theory and evidence
Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2008
This paper empirically tests the predictions of the Malthusian theory with respect to both population dynamics and income per capita stagnation in the pre-Industrial Revolution era. The theory suggests that improvements in technology during this period generated only temporary gains in income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284055
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Trading population for productivity: Theory and evidence
Galor, Oded; Mountford, Andrew - 2008
This research argues that the differential effect of international trade on the demand for human capital across countries has been a major determinant of the distribution of income and population across the globe. In developed countries the gains from trade have been directed towards investment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284056