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We examine how exposure to a church-affiliated TV channel affects religiosity and adherence to economic and social behaviors prescribed by the church. Our empirical strategy exploits the expansion of RecordTV, a Brazilian TV channel that started broadcasting religious content over the 1990s. We...
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The Economics of Religion is based on the model proposed by Azzi and Ehrenberg in 1975, which aimed to assess the … in a religion, especially Catholic or evangelical. …
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For public officials, the decision to engage in corruption is embedded into abroader set of career considerations. In … punctualevents such as anti-corruption audits. In this paper, we propose a model of corruption with career concerns. We show that … because bureaucrats have a long timehorizon, anti-corruption audits may have long- and short-term effects, triggeringeither …
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The paper studies the effect of additional government revenues on political corruption and on the quality of … implications of the theory and identify the causal effect of larger federal transfers on political corruption and the observed … transfers increase political corruption and reduce the quality of candidates for mayor. …
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The paper studies the effect of additional government revenues on political corruption and on the quality of … implications of the theory and identify the causal effect of larger federal transfers on political corruption and the observed … transfers increase political corruption and reduce the quality of candidates for mayor. -- Government spending ; corruption …
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formal and informal sector, within the informal sector, according to class, gender or religion, and between different … Schichtung, Geschlecht oder Religion sowie zwischen transnationalen sozialen Räumen. Diese unterschiedlichen Innovationskulturen …
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formal and informal sector, within the informal sector, according to class, gender or religion, and between different … Schichtung, Geschlecht oder Religion sowie zwischen transnationalen sozialen Räumen. Diese unterschiedlichen Innovationskulturen …
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formal and informal sector, within the informal sector, according to class, gender or religion, and between different …
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The globalized western culture of innovation, as propagated by major aid institutions, does not necessarily lead to empowerment or improvement of the well-being of the stakeholders. On the contrary, it often blocks viable indigenous innovation cultures. In African societies and African Diasporas...
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