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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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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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The effect of behavioral codes and gender on honesty

Arbel, Yuval; Bar-El, Ronen; Siniver, Erez; Tobol, Yossi - 2014

lie disappears. Given the strict separation between the secular and religious education systems the research findings … confirm the importance of education in instilling ethical values. …

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Effects of religiosity on social behaviour : experimental evidence from a representative sample of spaniards

Brañas-Garza, Pablo; Espín, Antonio M.; Neuman, Shoshana - 2013

This study explores the effect of several personal religion-related variables on social behaviour, using three … "no religion" made decisions closer to rational selfish behaviour in the DG and the UG compared to those who affiliate … religion raised in seems to have no effect on pro-sociality, beyond the effect of the current measures of religiosity …

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Immigrants and religion

Chiswick, Carmel Ullman - 2014

the Economics of Religion and the Economics of Immigration, and distinguishes between religiosity per se and an immigrant …

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Is religion associated with entrepreneurial activity?

Henley, Andrew - 2014

activity and religious affiliation. The relationship between religion and economic development has attracted recent attention …. A positive association may indicate that religion raises the social acceptability of entrepreneurial activity, by … national boundaries between religion and entrepreneurship. Definitions of entrepreneurship are taken from the Global …

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A tale of minorities : evidence on religious ethics and entrepreneurship from Swiss census data

Nunziata, Luca; Rocco, Lorenzo - 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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