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and salient ideas in an undergraduate course on the Economics of Religion, thereby providing one example of how potential …
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This paper estimates the impacts of religiosity on criminal activity using a city-wide shock to religious sentiment from a 2015 Papal visit. Using daily data on all reported offences between 2010 and 2015 in Philadelphia at the census tract level and a difference-in-differences approach, we...
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This paper studies the effect of religion on the economic progress of Black Americans after Reconstruction. Southern …
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This paper deals with the interlinkages between religious beliefs and practices and the economic growth and development … explain the relationship between religion and growth. I have also tried to present Adam Smith's view on the subject and how it …
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This survey gathers the current state of research activity on the emerging economic sub-area Economics of Religion. The … religious beliefs and activities are analyzed from the viewpoint of economic theory and behavior. The advanced statistical tools …
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Is economics unduly flat? Perhaps, sometimes. But part of the power of economics comes from the parsimony of its approach to human nature. If and when we search for more complex approaches, we will need to understand the tradeoffs involved in choosing between that power and simplicity and the...
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This paper collects most recent developments in the emerging economic sub-area Economics of Religion. According to … secularization thesis, the importance of beliefs and religious activities should weaken as education, scientific knowledge and …. This survey analyzes the economic consequences of religion, the two-way interrelationship between religious and economic …
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