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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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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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The name says it all : multigenerational social mobility in Switzerland, 1550-2019

Häner, Melanie; Schaltegger, Christoph A. - 2021

Social mobility is a key element of meritocratic societies. We analyze multigenerational social mobility with a hand-collected yearly Swiss dataset from 1550 to 2019. With our surname-based approach, we measure the Swiss society's overall permeability over more than 450 years. Furthermore, we...

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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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Arbeitsmarkt und Arbeitslosigkeit : zu den empirischen Determinanten des Suizidverhaltens in den OECD-Ländern

Rottmann, Horst - In: Behavioral Economics und Wirtschaftspolitik, (pp. 243-254). 2015

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Suicide, age, and wellbeing : an empirical investigation

Case, Anne; Deaton, Angus - In: Insights in the economics of aging, (pp. 307-338). 2017

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Religious tourism in Greece and regional development : the case of Samos Island

Balomenou, Chrysanthi; Poulaki, Panoraia; Lagos, Dimitrios - 2015

Religious tourism and tourism in general helps in the development and intensification of social and cultural relations. The issue of religious tourism comes under the general and sustainable development of alternative tourism, special interest and respect for holy places. Religious tourism is an...

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The more religiosity, the less creativity across US counties

Okulicz-Kozaryn, Adam - 2015 - Draft: 01/27/15

religiosity and creativity. Religion is a powerful and persistent force shaping human society. This study investigated the …

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