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Since 1950s, most African nations have gained independence from their colonial powers. Fortunately, independence has brought many changes to these nations and these include multi-party democratic government and western education systems. Unfortunately, the Africa’s economy is the least...
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This paper shows that peer pressure may lead to dynamic convergence to a norm that is skewed with respect to preferences in society, yet is endogenously upheld by the population. Moreover, a skewed norm will often be more sustainable than a representative norm. This may explain the skewness of...
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, provided that players' endogenous trust is high enough. The model the signalling theory of religion. Finally, the model enables …
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individual level, examining the relationship between religiosity and a broad set of pro- or anti-innovation attitudes in all five …, broadly defined (e.g., attitudes toward science and technology, new versus old ideas, change, risk taking, personal agency …
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individual level, examining the relationship between religiosity and a broad set of pro- or anti-innovation attitudes in all five …, broadly defined (e.g., attitudes toward science and technology, new versus old ideas, change, risk taking, personal agency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011265295
attitudes and that those attitudes are negatively associated with female labor participation. Beyond that, religion has only …Religion as a determinant of individuals’ behavior has only recently found its way in the economic literature. In this … analysis, four waves of ISSP-data covering the time between 1991 and 2002 are used to examine the relationship between religion …
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study has been to clarify and examine young people’s attitudes towards Muslims, and the relationships between these … attitudes and a large number of background factors. The material employed in the analysis comprises a representative sample of 9 …
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anti-Semitic attitudes and incidents in recent decades. The latter is also depicted as being related to the Israeli … innate and fairly stable over the life cycle, examining adolescents' attitudes is vitally important because they can help us …
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The present paper tackles two broad theses. According to the first, in the Eastern Orthodox view wealth, riches, material prosperity and whatever these things presuppose (the extended division of labour, trade, money, profit oriented entrepreneurship etc.) are not evil or condemnable in...
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tradition and institutional ideas on the provision of public goods - on attitudes toward central government. We explore whether … to study whether attitudes towards religious institutions such as the Russian Orthodox Church, the Chief Rabbinate in … attitudes toward centralized forms of governance. We find strong support for the proposition that collectivist norms and an …
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