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This paper integrates a simple theory of identity choice into a framework of endogenous economic growth to explain how secularization can be both cause and consequence of economic development. A secular identity allows an individual to derive more pleasure from consumption than religious...
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religion-specific human capital. It explores some implications of negative externalities between religious and secular … education. Applications include the tension between science and religion during the European Enlightenment and the development …
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empirical estimation that employs data from 32 countries (included in the International Social Survey Program: Religion II …
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. Developing a behavioral model of religion, we then characterize conditions under which a temporary decline in social mobility … produces a large and long-lasting rise in religious participation. Religion in our model helps to cope with loss, which occurs …
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religion is a moderator of time preference across potential investments, including: savings, social capital, and human capital …
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This paper integrates a simple theory of identity choice into a framework of endogenous economic growth to explain how secularization can be both cause and consequence of economic development. A secular identity allows an individual to derive more pleasure from consumption than religious...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013026464
religion enhances prosocial behavior. Evidence from both survey and experimental data however yield mixed results and there is … and church attendance. Despite the historic divide in religion, results in West and East Germany do not differ …
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Using data from approximately 11,000 individuals in 14 different OECD regions, we find that culture, as expressed by religious beliefs, generates public goods contributions. We characterize individuals into systems of religious beliefs using latent class analysis and find that some types of...
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religion-specific human capital. It explores some implications of negative externalities between religious and secular … education. Applications include the tension between science and religion during the European Enlightenment and the development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318783
level. We analyze these two possible determinants of individual risk attitudes: nationality and religion. First addressing … constituent factors including religion. (2) Religiousness is a significant determinant of risk attitudes. Religious persons are …
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