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The Effect of Religious Prohibitions on Economic Behavior

Linardi, Sera - 2019

We conducted a multi-country experiment on whether a reminder of the Islamic prohibition on interest induces lenders to choose Profit-Loss Sharing arrangements (PLS) as an alternative. We find that 1) Muslims are more likely to choose PLS than non-Muslims; 2) they do so when interest rates are...

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Gender Differences in Lying in Sender-Receiver Games : A Meta-Analysis

Capraro, Valerio - 2018

Whether there are gender di erences in lying has been largely debated in the past decade. Previous studies found mixed results. To shed light on this topic, here I report a meta-analysis of 8,728 distinct observations, collected in 65 Sender-Receiver game treatments, by 14 research groups....

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Ecology, Economics and the Management of Global Environmental Commons

Tavoni, Alessandro - 2015

Approaching the complexities inherent in human behavior, and compounded by the increasingly multifaceted environment we live in, requires multiple angles of attack. Hence, combining theoretical investigations and applied techniques appears to be a promising approach to inform the scientific and...

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Trading for peace

Jha, Saumitra - 2018

entrepreneurship and cultural assimilation, the development of local institutions supporting inter-ethnic trust and immigration …

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Violent conflict and parochial trust : lab-in-the-field and survey evidence

Werner, Katharina; Skali, Ahmed - 2023

How does conflict exposure affect trust? We hypothesize that direct (firsthand) experience with conflict induces … parochialism: trust towards out-groups worsens, but trust towards in-groups, owing to positive experiences of kin solidarity, may … improve. Indirect exposure to conflict through third-party accounts, on the other hand, reduces trust toward everyone. We find …

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Overlapping climate clubs under transaction costs

Silva, Emilson C. D.; Yamaguchi, Chikara - 2018

. It is perfectly excludable. Its (direct) benefits are enjoyed by the club members only. Trust plays a central role in the … type of alliance formation, if any at all. Lack of trust generates transaction costs, which increase with the number of R …

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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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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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The evolution of secularization : cultural transmission, religion and fertility theory, simulations and evidence

Bar-El, Ronen; Garcia-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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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’...

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