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The invisible hand plays dice : eventualities in religious markets

Poutvaara, Panu; Wagener, Andreas - 2004

Religious participation is much more widespread in the United States than in Europe, while Europeans tend to view sects more suspiciously than Americans. We propose an explanation for these patterns without assuming differences in preferences or market fundamentals. Religious markets may have...

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Understanding the Development of Fundamentalism

Gang, Ira N.; Epstein, Gil S. - 2004

We use economic theory to examine the intensity of fundamentalist sects. Leaders work to enhance their followers? observance level. We model three stylized situations under which fundamentalist groups function, examining the intensity of observance in each. We find that, under reasonable...

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Religion and entrepreneurship

Audretsch, David B.; Boente, Werner; Tamvada, … - 2007

While considerable concern has emerged about the impact of religion on economic development, little is actually known … about how religion impacts the decision making of individuals. This paper examines the influence of religion on the decision … paper finds that religion shapes the entrepreneurial decision. In particular, some religions, such as Islam and Christianity …

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Cultural effects on inbound tourism into the USA: a gravity approach

Vietze, Christoph - 2008

In this paper we discuss the effects of cultural and particular religious factors on tourist flows into the USA as the world largest tourism destination. To estimate this empirically we run an augmented gravity equation. Our results give evidence that the gravity equation is an adequate...

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The cult of Theoi: Economic uncertainty and religion

Frijters, Paul; Barón, Juan D. - 2010

Sacrifices to deities occur in nearly all known religions. In this paper, we report on our attempts to elicit this type of religious behaviour towards Theoi in the laboratory. The theory we test is that, when faced with uncertainty, individuals attempt to engage in a reciprocal contract with the...

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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 …

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Immigrant Religious Adjustment: An Economic Approach to Jewish Migrations

Chiswick, Carmel Ullman - 2003

An economic theory of immigration and immigrant absorption for a religious minority is developed and applied to Jewish history. Human capital is classified according to whether it is allocative or productive, transferable or location-specific, general or Jewish. Crossclassifying these categories...

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An Economic Perspective on Religious Education : Complements and Substitutes in a Human Capital Portfolio

Chiswick, Carmel Ullman - 2005

religion-specific human capital. It explores some implications of negative externalities between religious and secular … education. Applications include the tension between science and religion during the European Enlightenment and the development …

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Economics and religion

Chiswick, Carmel Ullman - 2010

This paper provides an overview of the relationship between economics and religion. It first considers the effects of … economic incentives in the religious marketplace on consumers' demand for religion. It then shows how this demand affects …

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Egalitarian religion and economics

Chiswick, Carmel Ullman - 2010

The role of women in the ritual of many religions changed dramatically at the end of the 20th century, to the point where full participation by women was the norm by 2000 rather than the rarity that it had been 30 years earlier. This paper considers some aspects of the economic context that help...

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