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Religiosity as a determinant of happiness
Gundlach, Erich; Opfinger, Matthias - 2011
We find a U-shaped relation between happiness and religiosity in cross-country panel data after controlling for income levels. At a given level of income, the same level of happiness can be reached with high and low levels of religiosity, but not with intermediate levels. A rise in income causes...
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Religion and the shadow economy
Heinemann, Friedrich; Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2011
Religion is increasingly acknowledged to be a cultural dimension which affects economic outcomes in different regards. This contribution focuses on religion's possible impact on the shadow economy. Different dimensions of the religious markets are taken into account. These dimensions refer to...
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Religion and Income
Bettendorf, L.; Dijkgraaf, E. - 2008
This paper tests whether the behaviour of households in different countries is homogeneous with respect to the influence of religion on income. The violation of the homogeneity assumption would have two consequences. First, results based on country studies might not be applicable to other...
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The religious transition: a long-run perspective
Paldam, Martin; Gundlach, Erich - 2009
We use factor analysis to derive a robust measure of religiosity from items reported in five waves of the World Value Survey. Our measure of religiosity is negatively correlated with per capita income. Development apparently causes religiosity to fall to about half its pre-modern level. Most...
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Unravelling secularization: an international study
Brañas-Garza, Pablo; García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, … - 2007
The current study examines individuals who were raised in a certain religion and at some stage of their life left it. Currently, they define their religious affiliation as 'no religion'. A battery of explanatory variables (country-specific ones, personal attributes and marriage variables) was...
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School competition and students' entrepreneurial intentions: International evidence using historical Catholic roots of private schooling
Falck, Oliver; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010
School choice research mostly focuses on academic outcomes. Policymakers increasingly view entrepreneurial traits as a non-cognitive outcome important for economic growth. We use international PISA-2006 student-level data to estimate the effect of private-school competition on students'...
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School competition and students' entrepreneurial intention: International evidence using historical Catholic roots of private schooling
Falck, Oliver; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010
School choice research mostly focuses on academic outcomes. Policymakers increasingly view entrepreneurial traits as a non-cognitive outcome important for economic growth. We use international PISA-2006 student-level data to estimate the effect of private-school competition on students'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270498
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Asabiyya: re-interpreting value change in globalized societies
Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - 2009
This article reflects the renewed interest of economics and the social science discipline in value systems and religion. The World Values Survey provided a data framework of global value change, whose quantitative results led Barro (2004) to analyze the connections between some dimensions of...
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Immigrant Religious Adjustment: An Economic Approach to Jewish Migrations
Chiswick, Carmel Ullman - 2003
history. Human capital is classified according to whether it is allocative or productive, transferable or location … and their influence on the Jewish community in their destination. Complementarity between general and Jewish human capital … is also discussed as a factor in the development of location-specific Jewish human capital and its corresponding Jewish …
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The evolution of secularization: Cultural transmission, religion and fertility theory, simulations and evidence
Bar-El, Ronen; García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana; … - 2010
This study presents an evolutionary process of secularization that integrates a theoretical model, simulations, and an empirical estimation that employs data from 32 countries (included in the International Social Survey Program: Religion II - ISSP, 1998). Following Bisin and Verdier (2000,...
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