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The determinants of church attendance and religious human capital in Germany : evidence from panel data
Heineck, Guido - 2001
This paper explores determinants of church attendance and the formation of 'religious human capital' in Germany within a Becker-style allocation-of-time framework. The analysis is based on data derived from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Taking advantage of the longitudinal structure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435639
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The Determinants of Church Attendance and Religious Human Capital in Germany : Evidence from Panel Data
Heineck, Guido - 2002
This paper explores determinants of church attendance and the formation of "religious human capital" in Germany within a Becker-style allocation-of-time framework. The analysis is based on data derived from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Taking advantage of the longitudinal structure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014113789
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Economic development, novelty consumption, and body weight : evidence from the East German transition to capitalism
Dragone, Davide; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2015
This paper develops a conceptual framework that can explain why economic development goes along with increases in body weight and obesity rates. We first introduce the concept of novelty consumption, which refers to an increase in food availability due to trade or innovation. Then we study how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510027
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Consumption-savings decisions under upward looking comparisons : evidence from Germany, 2002 - 2011
Drechsel-Grau, Moritz; Schmid, Kai D. - 2013
We demonstrate that interpersonal comparisons lead to "keeping up with the Joneses"-behavior. Using annual household data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we estimate the causal effect of changes in reference consumption, defined as the consumption level of all households who are perceived...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010190171
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Economic development, novelty consumption, and body weight : evidence from the East German transition to capitalism
Dragone, Davide; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2015
This paper develops a conceptual framework that can explain why economic development goes along with increases in body weight and obesity rates. We first introduce the concept of novelty consumption, which refers to an increase in food availability due to trade or innovation. Then we study how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011715829
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Why is satisfaction from pro-environmental behaviors increasing in costs? : insights from the rational-choice decision-error framework
Welsch, Heinz - 2023
The literature on subjective well-being (SWB) and the environment has found robust evidence of positive net marginal SWB from pro-environmental behavior (PEB), that is, positive marginal SWB net of the associated costs in terms of money, time and effort (Finding 1). Accordingly, people could...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014283751
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The determinants of church attendance and religious human capital in Germany : evidence from panel data
Heineck, Guido - 2001
This paper explores determinants of church attendance and the formation of 'religious human capital' in Germany within a Becker-style allocation-of-time framework. The analysis is based on data derived from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Taking advantage of the longitudinal structure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260777
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From immigrants to fundamentalists : changing portrayals of Muslim identities in Europe
Owers, Daphne - 2015
This article aims to establish how Muslim identities in Germany have been constructed by others and how they differ from realities. Muslim communities have often been viewed with suspicion by majority ethnic groups in European nation states, but even more so since the 9/11 terrorist attacks in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011284837
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Scharia-Kapitalismus : den Kampf gegen unsere Freiheit finanzieren wir selbst
Adamek, Sascha - 2017
Islam vor. So beträgt die deutsche Handelsbilanz mit Staaten, deren Rechtssystem überwiegend auf der Scharia fusst, 64 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011864383
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Does Democracy Deliver in Islamic Societies?
Maseland, Robbert - 2020
Is Islam compatible with democracy? While recent developments in Northern Africa and the Middle East have added new … that Islam is fundamentally incompatible with democratic institutions (the clash-of-civilizations view) with a … Muslim world, also analyzing potential causes -- rooted in Islam or otherwise -- of a failure of democracy to deliver. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012856961