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explaining urban growth in early-modern Europe, specifications compatible with human-capital versions of the neoclassical model …
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We examine differences across Europe in attitudes towards divorce involving young children. Our main hypothesis is that …
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We exploit information on compulsory schooling reforms in 11 European countries, implemented mostly in the 1960s and 70s, to identify the impact of education on religious adherence and religious practices. Using micro data from the European Social Survey, conducted in various years between 2002...
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This article aims to compare women in the MENA region with women in Europe as to how globalization affects their …, first, international trade, and, second, cross-national flows of information via persons and media. In Western Europe … labor market participation, mirroring the current development in the MENA countries. After the Cold War, in Western Europe …
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two sides of the Atlantic – Europe and the United States. The contribution of the study is mainly empirical, trying to … indeed more religious than the populations in the receiving countries, both in Europe and in the United States; and (b) while … Europe it has mainly the function of a buffer and of a “balm for the soul”. There is an extensive literature on the ‘bridge …
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towards immigrants in Russia and Ukraine and in European countries. In particular, in Russia, Ukraine and Europe, the public …
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This paper uses a cross-country representative sample of Europeans over the age of 50 to analyse whether individuals’ religiosity is associated with higher levels of well-being as a large number of studies by mental health researchers and economists have suggested. It is shown that in simple...
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J11; J15; Z12; Z13 </AbstractSection> Copyright Garcia-Muñoz and Neuman; licensee Springer. 2013
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The current study examines individuals who were raised in a certain religion and at some stage of their life left it …. Currently, they define their religious affiliation as ‘no religion’. A battery of explanatory variables (country-specific ones … tendency of individuals to leave their religion is strongly correlated with the degree of strictness of their country and with …
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