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A better understanding of the relational antecedents of innovation in family firms is central to explaining their long-term success and survival. Our study proposes an original model that shows that the internal social capital of non-family members does not always foster innovation directly as...
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. I use the 1985 and 1999 Spanish Fertility Surveys to study whether the significance of religion in fertility behavior … context of lower church participation, religiosity has acquired a more relevant meaning for demographic behavior. Among the …
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overall health and psychological health of the child. Three measures of religion/religiosity of the child are employed … health and the three measures of religion/religiosity. Those children (self-report or primary caregiver report) who have … Supplements (CDS) to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). The primary focus is on the effect of religion on the reported …
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Calls for pro-environmental behaviour change among individuals have become commonplace within the ecological modernist framework. To date, research on pro-environmental behaviour has tended to emphasise either the more or less rational decision-making processes undertaken by individuals, or the...
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We find a U-shaped relation between happiness and religiosity in cross-country panel data after controlling for income … levels. At a given level of income, the same level of happiness can be reached with high and low levels of religiosity, but … not with intermediate levels. A rise in income causes an increase in happiness along with a decline of religiosity. Our …
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We investigate the relationship between religion and trust. Using a questionnaire, we measure: i) general religiosity …'s religiosity in certain tasks. We find that trusting increases with the potential trustee's religiosity. The extent to which … trusting increases with a trustee's religiosity, in turn, increases with a truster's religiosity. Trustworthiness also …
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This paper discusses three alternative assumptions concerning household preferences (altruism, self-interest, and a desire for dynasty building) and shows that these assumptions have very different implications for bequest motives and bequest division. After reviewing some of the literature on...
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the Economics of Religion and the Economics of Immigration, and distinguishes between religiosity per se and an immigrant …
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immigration is first and foremost the result of a rejection of fundamentalist forms of religiosity. This suggests that common …
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of immigrants of Muslim and Christian culture who originate from the same country and whose religiosity varies from non … back by the recruiters. A follow-up survey confirms that the signal used to convey fictitious applicants' religiosity is …
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