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Does secular education impact religiosity, electoral participation and the propensity to vote for Islamic parties? : evidence from an education reform in a Muslim country
Cesur, Resul; Mocan, Naci - 2014
Using a unique survey of adults in Turkey, we find that an increase in educational attainment, due to an exogenous secular education reform, decreases women's propensity to identify themselves as religious, lowers their tendency to wear a religious head cover (head scarf, turban or burka) and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010257344
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Modeling Effects of Foreign Direct Investment on Macroeconomic Variables in Sudan
Mohamed, Issam A.W. - 2012
Over the past two decades, many countries around the world have experienced substantial growth in their economies, driven by inflow of the foreign capital especially in the form of foreign direct investment (FDI). The share of net FDI in world GDP has grown five-fold through recent years, making...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013112103
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Macroeconomy and Agriculture in Sudan : Analysis of Trade Policies, External Shocks, and Economic Bans in a Computable General Equilibrium Approach
Siddig, Khalid - 2011
Similar to many sub-Saharan African countries, Sudan has inherited a dual economy in the immediate post-independence era where a large agriculture-based rural traditional sector coexisted with a small non-agricultural modern sector. This functional dualism remained until the first oil shipment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013132879
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On the Importance of African Traditional Religion for Economic Behavior
Butinda, Lewis Dunia; Lameke, Aimable Amani; Nunn, Nathan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Within the field of economics, despite being widespread, African traditional religions tend to be perceived as unimportant and ignored when studying economic decision-making. This study tests whether this presumption is correct. Using daily data on business decisions and performance of beer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322817
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Does Secular Education Impact Religiosity, Electoral Participation and the Propensity to Vote for Islamic Parties? Evidence from an Education Reform in a Muslim Country
Cesur, Resul - 2014
Using a unique survey of adults in Turkey, we find that an increase in educational attainment, due to an exogenous secular education reform, decreases women's propensity to identify themselves as religious, lowers their tendency to wear a religious head cover (head scarf, turban or burka) and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057050
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Is God in the Details? A Reexamination of the Role of Religion in Economic Growth
Durlauf, Steven N.; Kourtellos, Andros; Tan, Chih Ming - 2013
Barro and McCleary (2003) is a key research contribution in the new literature exploring the macroeconomic effects of religious beliefs. This paper represents an effort to evaluate the strength of their claims. We evaluate their results in terms of replicability and robustness. Overall, their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014055544
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Bringing Religion into Economic Policy Analysis
Nelson, Robert H. - 2013
After a long period of economic neglect of religion, recent articles in leading economics journals have been finding … that religion has long played a surprisingly large role in influencing levels of economic development. Moving forward in … further careful analysis continues to shown that religion can be a key factor in explaining economic outcomes, this raises a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014150999
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POSA : policy implementation sensitivity analysis
Bauermann, Tom; Roos, Michael W. M.; Schaff, Frederik - 2020
Agent-based computational economics (ACE) is gaining interest in macroeconomic research. Agent-based models (ABM) are increasingly able to replicate micro- and macroeconomic stylised facts and to extend the knowledge about real-world economic systems. These advances allow ABM to become a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012234276
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The distinction between dictatorial and incentive policy interventions and its implication for IV estimation
Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 2010
We investigate if, and under which conditions, the distinction between dictatorial and incentive-based policy interventions affects the capacity of Instrument Variable (IV) methods to estimate the relevant treatment effect parameter of an outcome equation. The analysis is set in a non-trivial...
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The early history of program evaluation and the US Department of Labor
Ashenfelter, Orley - 2014
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