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Chapter 21. Religion, Culture, and Development

Aldashev, Gani; Platteau, Jean-Philippe - In: Handbook of the economics of art and culture : volume 2, (pp. 587-631). 2014

role of religion in human societies from a development economics perspective. We start by reviewing the contributions that … directly and through the effect of religion on institutions. Next, we summarize the literature that considers adherence to and … chooses to influence the contents of religion and the intensity of its dogmas. More precisely, we consider situations in which …

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The Evolution of Secularization : Cultural Transmission, Religion and Fertility Theory, Simulations and Evidence

Bar-El, Ronen - 2010

empirical estimation that employs data from 32 countries (included in the International Social Survey Program: Religion II …

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Weber, Work Ethic And Well-Being

Hoorn, André van; Maseland, Robbert - Departamento de Teoría e Historia Económica, Facultad … - 2008

. This provides a Weber-type channel relating religion to socio-economic outcomes. …

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A Tale of Minorities: Evidence on Religious Ethics and Entrepreneurship from Swiss Census Data

Nunziata, Luca; Rocco, Lorenzo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Does Protestantism favour the market economy more than Catholicism does? We provide a novel quasi-experimental way to answer this question by comparing Protestant and Catholic minorities using Swiss census data from 1970 to 2000. Exploiting the strong adhesion of religious minorities to their...

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How does Religion Bias the Allocation of Foreign Direct Investment? The Role of Institutions

Hergueux, Jérôme - Laboratoire de Recherche en Gestion (LaRGE), Institut … - 2012

religion on FDI allocation. We establish empirically that both bilateral religious similarity and bilateral religious diversity …

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Does a Protestant work ethic exist? Evidence from the well-being effect of unemployment

van Hoorn, André; Maseland, Robbert - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 91 (2013) C, pp. 1-12

Evidence on Weber's original thesis on a Protestant work ethic is ambiguous and relies on questionable measures of work attitudes. We test the relation between Protestantism and work attitudes using a novel method, operationalizing work ethic as the effect of unemployment on individuals’...

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Why Do People Leave Bequests? For Love or Self-Interest? Evidence from a New International Survey of Bequest Plans

Horioka, Charles Yuji - School of Economics, University of the Philippines at … - 2014

This paper discusses three alternative assumptions concerning household preferences (altruism, self-interest, and a desire for dynasty building) and shows that these assumptions have very different implications for bequest motives and bequest division. After reviewing some of the literature on...

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How does religion bias the allocation of Foreign Direct Investment? The role of institutions

Hergueux, Jérôme - In: Economie Internationale (2011) 128, pp. 53-76

religion on FDI allocation. We establish empirically that both bilateral religious similarity and bilateral religious diversity …

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The Protestant Ethic and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Religious Minorities from the Former Holy Roman Empire

Nunziata, Luca; Rocco, Lorenzo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

We propose a new methodology for identifying the causal effect of Protestantism versus Catholicism on the decision to become an entrepreneur. Our quasi-experimental research design exploits religious minorities' strong attachment to religious ethics and the exogenous historical determination of...

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The Implications of Cultural Background on Labour Market Choices: The Case of Religion and Entrepreneurship

Nunziata, Luca; Rocco, Lorenzo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We suggest a methodology for identifying the implications of alternative cultural and social norms embodied by religious denomination on labour market outcomes, by estimating the differential impact of Protestantism versus Catholicism on the propensity to be an entrepreneur, on the basis of the...

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