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This study explores the effect of several personal religion-related variables on social behaviour, using three … no religion made decisions closer to rational selfish behaviour in the DG and the UG compared to those who affiliate with … religion raised in seems to have no effect on pro-sociality, beyond the effect of the current measures of religiosity …
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This study reviews and evaluates the motives and incentives behind immigrants' religiosity, focusing on the two sides of the Atlantic - Europe and the United States. The contribution of the study is mainly empirical, trying to identify indicators for the type of incentive - whether immigrants'...
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To test for ethnic discrimination in access to outpatient health care services, we carry out an email … requests and randomized patients' characteristics. We find that patients' ethnicity, as signaled by distinct Turkish versus …
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A large literature on African economies argues that ethnicity plays a role in the politics and economics of African … develop is a failure of nationhood. Creating nation is handicapped by the use of ethnicity. In this paper, I empirically … examine the relationship between employment, wages and ethnicity in Africa via a case study of Kenya. I challenge the …
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into the labor market is crucial. Hence, a field experiment was conducted that examined the employment chances of females … migrants, who have constituted a large demographic group in Germany since the 1970s. In the field experiment presented here … photograph included in the application material. Germany was the ideal location for the experiment as job seekers typically …
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sample of 100 students from the majority population. We also estimate the role of statistical discrimination, taste …-based discrimination, and the contact hypothesis. Our results show small but significant mistreatment of the Roma. The choice to (not) have … a Roma in a team seems to be driven by tastes, while the role of statistical discrimination and the contact hypothesis …
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Beliefs about collective outcomes, such as economic growth or firm profitability, play an important role in many contexts. We study biases in the formation of such beliefs. Specifically, we explore whether over-optimism and self-serving biases in information processing-documented for beliefs...
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Fundamentalist organizations and the terrorists they spawn do not arise of a vacuum. Combating terrorism requires understanding the principles of groups’ formation, development and growth. We use economic theory to explain the creation and development of fundamentalist groups. In this paper we...
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tensions exist between the two ethnic groups. We conduct an incentivized laboratory-style decision-making experiment in which … find that members of each ethnicity show favoritism towards those of their own ethnicity in both trust and cooperation and …
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This study documents the size and nature of 'boy-girl' and 'Hindu-Muslim' gaps in children's school participation and attainments in India. Individual-level data from two successive rounds of the National Sample Survey suggest that considerable progress has been made in decreasing the...
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