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Moral barriers to birth control access : how the pill changed Dutch women's lives - when religion did not get in the way
Marie, Olivier; Zwiers, Esmée S. - 2021
We investigate how religious beliefs affected the take up of the birth control pill and impacted women's outcomes using the 1970 liberalization of oral contraceptives in the Netherlands. We first document a massive and immediate drop in fertility among minor women, aged 21 or younger, for whom...
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Numeracy of religious minorities in Spain and Portugal during the inquisition era
Juif, Dácil; Baten, Jörg; Pérez-Artés, Mari Carmen - In: Revista de historia económica : RHE 38 (2020) 1, pp. 147-184
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Are gender differentials in educational capabilities mediated through institutions of caste and religion in India?
Unni, Jeemol - 2008
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Religious barriers to birth control access
Marie, Olivier; Zwiers, Esmée S. - 2023
This paper presents new causal evidence on the "power" of oral contraceptives in shaping women's lives, leveraging the 1970 liberalization of the Pill for minors in the Netherlands and demand- and supply-side religious preferences that affected Pill take-up. We analyze administrative data to...
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Evolution vs. creationism in the classroom : the lasting effects of science education
Arold, Benjamin W. - 2022
Anti-scientific attitudes can impose substantial costs on societies. Can schools be an important agent in mitigating the propagation of such attitudes? This paper investigates the effect of the content of science education on anti-scientific attitudes, knowledge, and choices. The analysis...
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Religion and growth
Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2023
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Religion and growth
Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2024
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Religion and growth
Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2023
—together with standard growth models to frame the role of religion in economic growth. Unifying a growing literature, we argue that … religion can enhance or impinge upon economic growth through all four elements because it shapes individual preferences …, societal norms, and institutions. Religion affects physical capital accumulation by influencing thrift and financial …
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Human capital affects religious identity : causal evidence from Kenya
Alfonsi, Livia; Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie; … - 2023
We study how human capital and economic conditions causally affect the choice of religious denomination. We utilize a longitudinal dataset monitoring the religious history of more than 5,000 Kenyans over twenty years, in tandem with a randomized experiment (deworming) that has exogenously...
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Religion and growth
Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2023
- together with standard growth models to frame the role of religion in economic growth. Unifying a growing literature, we argue … that religion can enhance or impinge upon economic growth through all four elements because it shapes individual … preferences, societal norms, and institutions. Religion affects physical capital accumulation by influencing thrift and financial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014391202