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Christians. Individual data on language, culture, societal interactions, history of migration and ethnic self-identification are …
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Christians. Individual data on language, culture, societal interactions, history of migration and ethnic self-identification are …
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Religious adherence has been hard to study in part because it is hard to measure. We develop a new measure of religious adherence, which is granular in both time and space, using anonymized mobile phone transaction records. After validating the measure with traditional data, we show how it can...
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violations are unethical. Religion can be considered an informal institution that might support or hinder formal laws issued with … adherence to religion is found. As the Religion-Loyalty Index (RLI) developed by this study shows, Muslim countries have the …
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, there has been little study of the determinants of economic freedom. We investigate whether religion affects economic …
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This paper studies child health in India focusing on differences in anthropometric outcomes between the three main religions – Hindus, Muslims and Christians. The results indicate that Christian infants have higher height-for-age z-scores as compared to infants of other religious identities,...
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This chapter surveys the recent social science literature on religion in economic history, covering both socioeconomic … causes and consequences of religion. Following the rapidly growing literature, it focuses on the three main monotheisms … monotheistic character of the Abrahamic religions facilitated a close historical interconnection of religion with political power …
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This paper surveys the recent social science literature on religion in economic history, covering both socioeconomic … causes and consequences of religion. Following the rapidly growing literature, it focuses on the three main monotheisms … monotheistic character of the Abrahamic religions facilitated a close historical interconnection of religion with political power …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012229328
institutional environment. In this paper, we address these issues by modeling the joint evolution of institutions and culture. In …
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of immigrants of Muslim and Christian culture who originate from the same country and whose religiosity varies from non …
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