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Happiness and religion

Fidrmuc, Jan; Tunali, Çiğdem Börke - 2015

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The financial power of the powerless : socio-economic status and interest rates under partial rule of law

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The impact of worship on individual's well-being

Munir, Fozia; Awan, Ashar; Hamdani, Syed Nisar Hussain - In: Journal of advanced research in law and economics : JARLE 3 (2012) 2, pp. 21-30

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Policies against human trafficking : the role of religion and political institutions

Potrafke, Niklas - 2013

I investigate empirically the role of religion and political institutions in policies against human trafficking, using … influence of religion on the overall 3P Anti-trafficking Policy Index is driven by protection and prevention policies. As … empirical findings regarding the association between religion, political institutions, and human development. …

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Sinners or saints? : preachers' kids and risky health behaviors

Delaney, Jason; Winters, John V. - 2013

This paper examines parental influence on adolescent risky behavior, focusing on a unique population: children of the clergy, more commonly known as preachers' kids (PKs). We use latent variable and zero-inflated count models to analyze the effect of being a PK on both uptake and intensity of...

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Religion, politician identity and development outcomes : evidence from India

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clots-Figueras, Irma; Cassan, Guilhem; … - 2013

correlated with constituency level voter preferences or characteristics that make religion salient, we use quasi-random variation …

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Testing an EU-candidate's place on the maps of global economic, political and social values : the case of Turkey

Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - 2014

Following the attempt by Alesina and Guiliano (2013) to measure global culture and to project these measurements onto real choropleth geographical world maps, we utilize the data from the World Values Survey (WVS) to arrive at robust measurement scales of global economic, political and social...

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The effect of income on religiousness

Buser, Thomas - 2014

How does income affect religiousness? Using self-collected survey data, we estimate the effects of income on religious behaviour. As a source of exogenous income variation we use a change in the eligibility criteria for a government cash transfer in Ecuador and apply a regression discontinuity...

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From worship to worldly pleasures : secularization and long-run economic growth

Strulik, Holger - 2012 - This version: May 2012

speed. In the 20th century, religion played a much lesser role in daily life and income and productivity grew at high and …

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