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German survey data containing questions on worldviews, religion, parental behavior, and socioeconomic variables. Our …
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An astonishing 33 % of all export spells in Danish data turn out to be isolated single-month one-off export transactions. On average, for an export-active firm, one-off events generate 17 % of foreign sales. These patterns do not sit well with available trade models. To reconcile theory with the...
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We analyze the effects of consumers' limited attention on welfare in a model of horizontal product differentiation. We present a novel approach of modeling limited attention: an attention radius. Each consumer only notices goods that are within her attention radius, i.e., goods that are...
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In their survey of the literature on ethnic fractionalization and economic performance, Alesina and La Ferrara (JEL 2005) identify two main directions for future research. One is to improve the measurement of diversity and the other to treat diversity as an endogenous variable. This paper tries...
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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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During industrialization, Protestants were more literate than Catholics. This paper investigates whether this fact may be led back to the intrinsic motivation of Protestants to read the bible and whether other education motives were involved as well. We employ a historical data set from...
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recommendations. We find that voting recommendations do indeed matter, implying that even in a secularized world, religion plays a …
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understanding of which factors fueled the astonishing rise of the Nazis remains highly incomplete. This paper shows that religion …
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Why did substantial parts of Europe abandon the institutionalized churches around 1900? Empirical studies using modern data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of secularization. We construct a unique panel dataset of...
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Using German administrative income tax data we investigate economic consequences of an increasingly secular society for prosocial behavior. For this purpose, we establish initially a simple household model to formalize the relationship between religious giving in form of the German church tax...
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