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Religious adherence has been hard to study in part because it is hard to measure. We develop a new measure of religious adherence, which is granular in both time and space, using anonymized mobile phone transaction records. After validating the measure with traditional data, we show how it can...
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others through charity. Since this behavioral norm is attributed only to Muslims, this implicitly means that the giving … behavior of Muslims is different from others. This study aims to test the validity of this assumption by analyzing a … indicate no difference between Muslims and members of other religions in terms of the likelihood of involving in giving …
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We report an experiment designed to evaluate the impact of loss aversion on rent-seeking contests. We find, as …
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Group contests are ubiquitous. Some examples include warfare between countries, competition between political parties, team-incentives within firms, group sports, and rent-seeking. In order to succeed, members of the same group have incentives to cooperate with each other by expending individual...
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The dissertation at hand is divided into three chapters. Chapter 1 presents an impact evaluation of a widely spread conditional cash transfer in Brazil called Bolsa Família. We analyze the impacts of the program on two educational outcomes: enrollment and attendance. In our analysis we consider...
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