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Ora et Guberna. The Economic Impact of Benedict's Rule in Medieval England
Rossignoli, Domenico - 2020
We investigate differences in the economic performance of secular and religious local rulers in Medieval England. Exploiting the Norman conquest of England as a historical experiment, we compare economic outcomes of estates controlled by secular feudal landlords, Benedictine monasteries and...
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The evolution of catholic-protestant labour market inequality in Northern Ireland, 1983-2014
Rowland, Neil; McVicar, Duncan; Shuttleworth, Ian - 2018
Ethnic and religious differentials in labour market outcomes within many countries have been remarkably persistent. Yet one very well-known differential - the Catholic/ Protestant unemployment differential in Northern Ireland - has largely (although not completely) disappeared. This paper charts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011880336
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Faith primary schools: better schools or better pupils?
Gibbons, Stephen; Silva, Olmo - 2009
We provide estimates for the effect of attending a Faith school on educational achievement using a census of primary school pupils in England. We argue that there are no credible instruments for Faith school attendance in this context. Instead, we partially control for selection into religious...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269088
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Faith primary schools : better schools or better pupils?
Gibbons, Steve; Silva, Olmo - 2009
We provide estimates for the effect of attending a Faith school on educational achievement using a census of primary school pupils in England. We argue that there are no credible instruments for Faith school attendance in this context. Instead, we partially control for selection into religious...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003829733
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Faith Primary Schools : Better Schools or Better Pupils?
Gibbons, Stephen - 2009
We provide estimates for the effect of attending a Faith school on educational achievement using a census of primary school pupils in England. We argue that there are no credible instruments for Faith school attendance in this context. Instead, we partially control for selection into religious...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764218
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The Causal Effect of Religious Piety on Shareholder Wealth : Evidence from Acquirer Returns and Historical Religious Identification
Chintrakarn, Pandej - 2015
Prior research shows that religion promotes honesty. Honesty in turn motivates managers to view an expropriation from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013009377
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Happiness and Religion
Fidrmuc, Jan - 2015
We use four ways of the European Social Survey, covering 2000 to 2008, to analyze the effect of religion on happiness … the effects of belonging to an organized religion from the effect of holding religious beliefs, we find that the former … lowers happiness while the latter raises it. We interpret this as evidence that the tangible aspects of religion (such as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013018703
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Friendship network composition and subjective wellbeing
Awaworyi Churchill, Sefa; Smyth, Russell - 2017
's friends are similar to oneself with regard to ethnicity and religion. We find that people who have friendship networks with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011660075
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Poisson analysis of suicide in Japan using municipal data
Sugano, Saki; Matsuki, Yusuke - In: Applied economics letters 21 (2014) 10/12, pp. 723-726
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Real wages and labour productivity in Britain and Germany, 1871-1938: a unified approach to the international comparison of living standards
Broadberry, Stephen; Burhop, Carsten - 2009
Throughout the period 1871-1938, the average British worker was better off than the average German worker, but there were significant differences between major sectors. For the aggregate economy, the real wage gap was about the same as the labour productivity gap, but again there were important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266982