This paper explores the role of religion in mitigating the degree to which unemployment reduces subjective well … method to tease out a causal relation between religion and well-being. We find that religion acts as a buffer: Unemployed …

into either Muslim or Hindu, guaranteeing exogenous variation in religion concordance between messenger and recipient … misconceptions are observed only when there is religion concordance and mainly for religious-salient misconceptions. Correcting …

religious principles of Islam affecting its economic trajectory in the preindustrial world. -- Religion ; Islam ; Geography …

This paper analyzes the political economy of productivity-related policymaking in Chile following a political …

We conducted an experiment in low-income schools in Chile to test the effects and behavioral changes triggered by a … scalable information intervention can improve education outcomes in lower-income settings. …

schools in Chile. The ConectaIdeas program involves two weekly sessions in a computer lab during which students use an online …

We explore how government fragmentation affects public education provision by examining the case of Chile, which …

Do resource-extraction booms crowd out postsecondary education? We explore this question by examining the higher … education-related decisions of Chilean high school graduates during the 2000s commodities boom. We find mineral extraction … increases a person's likelihood of enrolling in postsecondary technical education while reducing the likelihood of completing a …