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The causal effect of religious and environmental identity on green preferences : a combined priming and stated choice experiment
Engler, Daniel; Groh, Elke D.; Ziegler, Andreas - 2019 - Preliminary version
Using a stated choice experiment, we find that a prime that makes environmental identity salient makes people behave greener, whereas it does not if it makes religious identity salient. Further-more, we discover non-linear priming effects for environmental identity, which means that rais-ing the...
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Worldviews and intergenerational altruism : empirical evidence for Germany
Akkemik, Kucik Ali; Dittrich, Marcus; Göksal, Koray; … - 2012
German survey data containing questions on worldviews, religion, parental behavior, and socioeconomic variables. Our …
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Religious affiliation and economic performance of Romanian emigrants : an empirical approach
Roman, Monica; Goschin, Zizi - 2011
Although migration and religion studies have traditionally developed as separate research topics, in the current … studies of migration raise the importance and role of religion in the international migration flows, distinguish between the … reconfiguration of religions in the contemporary world. Religion often inspires migration, as religious minority groups facing …
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How relevant are economic preferences and personality traits for individual sustainable investment behavior? : a framed field experiment
Gutsche, Gunnar; Wetzel, Heike; Ziegler, Andreas - 2020 - Preliminary version
This paper analyzes the determinants of socially responsible investing (SRI) at the individual investor level. We examine data from an incentivized framed field experiment, which was part of a survey among a representative sample of financial decision makers in German households. Thus, we...
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Civic capital and the vertical integration of service provision : evidence from Italy
Bürker, Matthias; Minerva, G. Alfredo - 2013
This paper studies whether civic capital acts an effective restraint against opportunistic behavior in transactions, looking at the degree of outsourcing to external suppliers of service provision in Italian firms. Our results show that, on average, firms tend to outsource more services where...
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Religion and segregation
Razin, Ronny - In: Advances in the economics of religion, (pp. 89-101). 2019
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Determinants of Romanian international migrants' remittances
Goschin, Zizi; Roman, Monica; Popa, Aura - 2011
In the past few years, there has been a renewed interest in remittances of international migrants, as their strong recent increase shed more light on the effects at both micro and macro level. The remittances not only contribute to the well-being of the receiving households, but are also a large...
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The terror of history : solar eclipses and the origins of social complexity and complex thinking
Litina, Anastasia; Fernández, Èric Roca - 2020
Our research advances the hypothesis and empirically establishes that a higher incidence of solar eclipses is associated with higher social complexity and complex thinking in premodern societies. We construct a novel dataset of solar eclipses' incidence at the ethnic-group level, bringing...
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Science and innovation in Scotland : a study on the impact of enhanced autonomy
Rosiello, Alessandro; Mastroeni, Michele; Omidvar, Omid; … - 2015
in its science and innovation systems, briefly recount policy initiatives to improve them, and outline the main arguments … Scotland. The science system has been strengthened during the 2000s as devolution brought a set of new and expanded funding … science base and Scotland?s innovation system, and the lack of coherent policy to address that 'disconnect'. The questions are …
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Normal vs. spectacular science : the IMP Group and BtoB marketing
Cova, Bernard; Pardo, Catherine; Salle, Robert; … - In: Industrial marketing management : the international … 49 (2015), pp. 80-83
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