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Measuring Religion from Behavior : Climate Shocks and Religious Adherence in Afghanistan

Dube, Oeindrila; Blumenstock, Joshua Evan; Callen, Michael - 2022

Religious adherence has been hard to study because it is hard to measure. We develop a new measure of religious adherence, which is granular in both time and space, using anonymized mobile phone transaction records. After validating the measure with traditional data, we show how it can shed...

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Special Interests at the Ballot Box? Religion and the Electoral Success of the Nazis

Spenkuch, Jörg L.; Tillmann, Philipp - 2016

We study the connection between religion and political radicalization in Weimar Germany, where the Catholic Church …

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The impact of institutions, culture, and religion on per capita income

Dobler, Constanze - 2009

negatively correlated with growth-supporting formal institutions. -- culture ; economic development ; institutions ; property … rights ; religion …

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Skewed norms under peer pressure : formation and collapse

Michaeli, Moti; Spiro, Daniel - 2014 - This version June 2014

This paper shows that peer pressure may lead to dynamic convergence to a norm that is skewed with respect to preferences in society, yet is endogenously upheld by the population. Moreover, a skewed norm will often be more sustainable than a representative norm. This may explain the skewness of...

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Measuring religion from behavior : climate shocks and religious adherence in Afghanistan

Dube, Oeindrila; Blumenstock, Joshua E.; Callen, Michael - 2022

Religious adherence has been hard to study in part because it is hard to measure. We develop a new measure of religious adherence, which is granular in both time and space, using anonymized mobile phone transaction records. After validating the measure with traditional data, we show how it can...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013457703

Religious Denomination and Attitudes toward Bribery : Summaries of 19 Studies

McGee, Robert W.; Benk, Serkan - 2022

This chapter summarizes the results of 19 studies that were conducted on the relationship between religious denomination and attitude toward bribery. Additional summaries will be published in the second volume of this series, The Ethics of Bribery: Country Studies

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Religious Attitudes Toward Bribery : A Comparative Study

McGee, Robert W.; Benk, Serkan; Yuzbasi, Bahadir - 2022

variable examined was religion. Overall, nearly 70 percent believed that accepting a bribe could never be justified. Attitudes … toward bribery were ranked on the basis of religion. The Jewish respondents were least opposed to accepting a bribe, while … the Muslim respondents were most opposed. Religion was a significant demographic variable. Overall, women were slightly …

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Religiosity and Attitudes toward Bribery : Summaries of 12 Studies

McGee, Robert W.; Benk, Serkan - 2022

This chapter summarizes the results of 12 studies that were conducted on the relationship between religiosity and attitude toward bribery. Additional summaries will be published in the second volume of this series, The Ethics of Bribery: Country Studies

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Christian Attitudes toward Bribery

McGee, Robert W.; Benk, Serkan; Yuzbasi, Bahadir - 2022

The present study is part of a much larger study that examines the ethics of bribery and the ethics of tax evasion from a variety of perspectives. In this study, data were taken from the most recent World Values Survey. Overall, opposition to taking a bribe was strong. All demographic variable...

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Measuring Religion from Behavior : Climate Shocks and Religious Adherence in Afghanistan

Dube, Oeindrila; Blumenstock, Joshua Evan; Callen, Michael - 2022

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