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Cultural vs. economic legacies of empires: Evidence from the partition of Poland
Grosfeld, Irena; Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 43 (2015) 1, pp. 55-75
Poland was divided among three empires—Russia, Austria–Hungary, and Prussia—for over a century until 1918. The partition brought about divergence in culture, institutions, and economic development. We use spatial regression discontinuity to examine, which empire effects are persistent. We...
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Does Religiosity Promote Property Rights and the Rule of Law?
Berggren, Niclas; Bjørnskov, Christian - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012
. We introduce religiosity, measured as the share for which religion is important in daily life, to explain institutional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818489
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Is the importance of religion in daily life related to social trust? Cross-country and cross-state comparisons
Berggren, Niclas; Bjørnskov, Christian - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 80 (2011) 3, pp. 459-480
We look at the effect of importance of religion in daily life on social trust, defined as the share of a population …
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Religion and trust: an experimental study
Tan, Jonathan H. W.; Vogel, Claudia - 2005
We investigate the relationship between religion and trust. Using a questionnaire, we measure: i) general religiosity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297242
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Does Religiosity Promote Property Rights and the Rule of Law?
Berggren, Niclas; Bjørnskov, Christian - 2012
. We introduce religiosity, measured as the share for which religion is important in daily life, to explain institutional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320238
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Religion, Religiosity and Educational Attainment of Immigrants to the USA
Mukhopadhyay, Sankar - Economics Department, University of Nevada-Reno; … - 2009
. Using data from the New Immigrant Survey (2003), we show that affiliation with religion is not necessarily associated with … an increase in educational attainment. Muslim and “Other religion” immigrants have less education compared to the … immigrants who are not affiliated with any religion. However, affiliation with the Jewish religion is associated with higher …
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Is the Importance of Religion in Daily Life Related to Social Trust? Cross-Country and Cross-State Comparisons
Berggren, Niclas; Bjørnskov, Christian - Ratioinstitutet - 2009
the U.S. states, measuring religiosity by the share of the population that answers yes to the question “Is religion an …
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Can religious institutions promote sustainable behavior? : field experimental evidence on donations towards a carbon-offsetting fund
Feldhaus, Christoph; Gleue, Marvin; Löschel, Andreas - 2019
We conduct a field experiment with the visitors of the German Catholic Convention in Münster, Germany. We aim at investigating the effect of the announced attitude of a Catholic institution concerning climate protection efforts, of people's experimentally induced religiosity (using a priming...
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Paradise postponed : future tense and religiosity
Mavisakalyan, Astghik; Tarverdi, Yashar; Weber, Clas - 2020
This paper identifies a new source of differences in religiosity: the presence of future tense marking in language. We argue that the rewards and punishments that incentivise religious behaviour are less effective for speakers of languages that contain future tense marking. Consistent with this...
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School curricula, educational trajectories, and labor market outcomes
Arold, Benjamin W. - 2022
Benjamin W. Arold prepared this study while he was working at the Center for Economics of Education at the ifo Institute. The study was completed in March 2022 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the LMU Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical essays that...
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