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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...
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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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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
. 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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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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study, we perform a name categorization experiment in the United States that yields 56 names associated with six ethnicity …In recent decades, researchers have found compelling evidence of discrimination in the labor and housing market toward … validity of future experiments on ethnic discrimination …
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study, we perform a name categorization experiment in the United States that yields 56 names associated with six ethnicity …In recent decades, researchers have found compelling evidence of discrimination in the labor and housing market toward … validity of future experiments on ethnic discrimination. …
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This paper studies the effect of competition on ethnic discrimination by carrying out a field experiment in the context … competition in the marketplace, do not price discriminate against ethnic minority farmers. A second lab-in-the-field experiment … and survey information indicate that local and wholesale buyers do not have different tastes for discrimination. This …
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Beliefs about collective outcomes, such as economic growth or firm profitability, play an important role in many contexts. We study biases in the formation of such beliefs. Specifically, we explore whether over-optimism and self-serving biases in information processing-documented for beliefs...
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