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Kings of Mississippi examines how a twentieth-century black middle-class family navigated life in rural Mississippi …. The book introduces seven generations of a farming family and provides an organic examination of how the family … struggling black and white sharecroppers and farmers in Gallman, Mississippi. Family narratives and census data across time and a …
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Hispanic ethnicity and family elder care, there was no significant relationship between religion and family elder care. There … micro-data, that there is indeed a connection between ethnicity and family elder care. However, we show that religion is not …Purpose: Examining the linkage between self-reported ethnicity and the propensity for family-based informal health care …
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This thesis contains four studies in applied microeconomics. The first chapter studies the question of how risk and religiosity are related. The second chapter is a field experiment with a gym, with a policy intervention to help people go more often to the gym. The third chapter examines how the...
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This study reviews and evaluates the motives and incentives behind immigrants’ religiosity, focusing on the two sides of the Atlantic - Europe and the United States. The contribution of the study is mainly empirical, trying to identify indicators for the type of incentive - whether immigrants'...
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Much is known historically about the formal place for religion and spirituality in various countries. Less is known … sociologically about the actual ways religion and spirituality are present in public institutions or about the conceptual and … methodological assumptions that underlie how scholars approach the study of religion within public institutions. We conceive of …
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