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Foreshadowing Mars : religiosity and pre-Enlightenment warfare

Barber, Luke; Jetter, Michael; Krieger, Tim - 2023

Can religiosity sway a society's propensity for violence against outgroups? We first introduce two state-year-level religiosity measures for several pre-Enlightenment European states with the frequencies of religious language in book publications and Christian names of newborns. To identify...

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Foreshadowing Mars : religiosity and pre-Enlightenment warfare

Barber, Luke; Jetter, Michael; Krieger, Tim - 2023

Can religiosity sway a society's propensity for violence against outgroups? We first introduce two state-year-level religiosity measures for several pre-Enlightenment European states with the frequencies of (i) religious language in book publications and (ii) Christian names of newborns. To...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014423770

Foreshadowing Mars: Religiosity and pre-Enlightenment conflict in Europe

Barber, Luke; Jetter, Michael; Krieger, Tim - 2024

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Habemus Papam ?Polarization and Conflict in the Papal States

Pino, Francisco; Vidal-Robert, Jordi - European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and … - 2014

, which we exploit to analyze the causal effect of a divided conclaveon conflict. We find that an increase of one standard … deviation in our measure ofpolarization raised the likelihood of internal conflict by between 2 and 3 percentin a given year and … the largest and oldest organizations from violent conflict to religiousmatters. …

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Monotheism (from a sociopolitical and economic perspective)

Iyigun, Murat - 2007

sociopolitical institutions because they (a) involve a strong degree of increasing returns to scale and the natural monopoly powers …

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Religion and economic development in history : institutions and the role of religious networks

Karacuka, Mehmet - In: Journal of economic issues : jei 52 (2018) 1, pp. 57-79

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History Matters: The Origins of Cultural Supply in Italy

BOROWIECKI, Karol Jan - Department of Economics, Trinity College Dublin - 2012

I investigate the consequences of long-run persistence of a societies’ preference towards cultural goods. Historical cultural activity is approximated with the frequency of births of classical composers during the Renaissance and is linked with contemporary supply of cultural activities in...

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History matters: The origins of cultural supply in Italy

Borowiecki, Karol Jan - Institut for Virksomhedsledelse og Økonomi, Syddansk … - 2012

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Historical origins of cultural supply in Italy

Borowiecki, Karol Jan - Institut for Virksomhedsledelse og Økonomi, Syddansk … - 2015

I investigate the consequences of long-run persistency of a society’s preferences for cultural goods. Historical cultural activity is approximated with the frequency of births of music composers during the Renaissance and is linked with contemporary measures of cultural activity in Italian...

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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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