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The evolution of catholic-protestant labour market inequality in Northern Ireland, 1983-2014

Rowland, Neil; McVicar, Duncan; Shuttleworth, Ian - 2018

Ethnic and religious differentials in labour market outcomes within many countries have been remarkably persistent. Yet one very well-known differential - the Catholic/ Protestant unemployment differential in Northern Ireland - has largely (although not completely) disappeared. This paper charts...

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The impact of the first professional police forces on crime

Bindler, Anna; Hjalmarsson, Randi - 2021 - This version: January 07, 2021

This paper evaluates the effect on crime of creating a fundamental modern-day institution: centralized professional police forces tasked with preventing crime. We study the 1829 formation of the London Metropolitan Police - the first professional force worldwide. Using newly digitized and...

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The First Real Estate Bubble? Land Prices and Rents in Medieval England C. 1300-1500

Bell, Adrian R. - 2018

This paper tests for speculative bubbles in the medieval English property market based on a unique hand-collected dataset from the feet of fines spanning the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. We focus on asset types where there are sufficiently large numbers of transactions each year to make a...

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A Reappraisal of the Freehold Property Market in Late Medieval England

Bell, Adrian R. - 2018

This paper re-examines the late medieval market in freehold land, the extent to which it was governed by market forces as opposed to political or social constraints, and how this contributed to the commercialisation of the late medieval English economy. We employ a valuable new resource for...

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Faith primary schools : better schools or better pupils?

Gibbons, Steve; Silva, Olmo - 2009

We provide estimates for the effect of attending a Faith school on educational achievement using a census of primary school pupils in England. We argue that there are no credible instruments for Faith school attendance in this context. Instead, we partially control for selection into religious...

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Faith Primary Schools : Better Schools or Better Pupils?

Gibbons, Stephen - 2009

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The Causal Effect of Religious Piety on Shareholder Wealth : Evidence from Acquirer Returns and Historical Religious Identification

Chintrakarn, Pandej - 2015

Prior research shows that religion promotes honesty. Honesty in turn motivates managers to view an expropriation from …

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Happiness and Religion

Fidrmuc, Jan - 2015

We use four ways of the European Social Survey, covering 2000 to 2008, to analyze the effect of religion on happiness … the effects of belonging to an organized religion from the effect of holding religious beliefs, we find that the former … lowers happiness while the latter raises it. We interpret this as evidence that the tangible aspects of religion (such as …

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Friendship network composition and subjective wellbeing

Awaworyi Churchill, Sefa; Smyth, Russell - 2017

's friends are similar to oneself with regard to ethnicity and religion. We find that people who have friendship networks with …

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An investigation of early modern Quakers’ business ethics

Sahle, Esther - 2015

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