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Following the attempt by Alesina and Guiliano (2013) to measure global culture and to project these measurements onto real choropleth geographical world maps, we utilize the data from the World Values Survey (WVS) to arrive at robust measurement scales of global economic, political and social...
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; international political economy ; religion ; bureaucracy ; corruption …This article reflects the renewed interest of economics and the social science discipline in value systems and religion …
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This article reflects the renewed interest of economics and the social science discipline in value systems and religion …, for cross-national research on religion and economic growth also shows that the “active society” of volunteer organization …
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This article reflects the renewed interest of economics and the social science discipline in value systems and religion …
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This paper attempts to close a gap in the recent literature on African economic development: the place of Africa on the maps of global economic, political and social values. We develop new comparable indices of global value development from the latest set of World Values Survey data and...
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equating female earnings to male earnings, also has a negative effect on the development of liberal Catholicism. That is feminism greatly polarizes Catholic structures, especially in the more developed world. Our results on the determinants of the rate of long-term economic growth are well...
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Our data are from two sets of reliable and regularly repeated global opinion surveys: The World Values Survey (WVS) and the European Social Survey (ESS). Our statistical calculations were performed by the routine and standard SPSS statistical program (SPSS XXIII), and relied on the so-called...
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clearly to be associated with the loss of religion (irrespective of the predominant denomination in a country): the distrust … old religion of Judaism and also Christian Protestantism emerge as the role models for other religions how to combine … religion and the traditions of the Enlightenment. Interestingly enough, also Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism and Roman Catholicism …
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At just the right moment in global history, the Anti-Defamation League of the B'nai Brith organization has released new data on antisemitism in over 100 countries. This data is based on solid opinion surveys and for the first time includes large parts of the Muslim world, not only Western...
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Ever since Goldin (1995) proposed the idea that there is a U-shaped female labor force participation rate function in economic development, empirical research is stunned by the question why the countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are characterized by such low rates of female...
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