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Filote, Andra; Potrafke, Niklas; Ursprung, Heinrich - 2015

Many experts claim that the incidence of suicide attacks is driven by religious cleavages. To test this hypothesis, we investigate whether the total number of suicide attacks per violent conflict or the annual number of suicide attacks per country is associated with simmering religious...

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Compulsory Schooling Laws and Formation of Beliefs: Education, Religion and Superstition

Mocan, Hüseyin Naci; Pogorelova, Luiza - 2014

We exploit information on compulsory schooling reforms in 11 European countries, implemented mostly in the 1960s and 70s, to identify the impact of education on religious adherence and religious practices. Using micro data from the European Social Survey, conducted in various years between 2002...

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Secularization and long-run economic growth

Strulik, Holger - 2015

This paper integrates a simple theory of identity choice into a framework of endogenous economic growth to explain how secularization can be both cause and consequence of economic development. A secular identity allows an individual to derive more pleasure from consumption than religious...

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Voodoo versus Fishing Committees: The Role of Traditional and Contemporary Institutions in Fischeries Management

Alonso, Elena Briones; Houssa, Romain; Verpoorten, Marijke - 2015

institution embedded in the Voodoo religion and a recent secular institution in the form of fishing committees. Using household …

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Protestantism and Human Capital in Guatemala and the Republic of Korea

McCleary, Rachel M. - 2013

Protestant missions from the United States entered the Republic of Korea and Guatemala at the same time (1884 and 1882, respectively). Yet, their impact on human capital has been divergent. The analysis presented in this paper supports the findings of Woodberry (2004, 2009, 2011) and Nunn (2009)...

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Religion and Innovation

Benabou, Roland; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - 2015

waves of the World Values Survey (1980 to 2005). We thus relate eleven indicators of individual openness to innovation …

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Social Cohesion, Religious Beliefs, and the Effect of Protestantism on Suicide

Becker, Sascha O.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015

In an economic theory of suicide, we model social cohesion of the religious community and religious beliefs about afterlife as two mechanisms by which Protestantism increases suicide propensity. We build a unique micro-regional dataset of 452 Prussian counties in 1816-21 and 1869-71, when...

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The rise of secularism and its economic consequences

Lozano, Fernando A. - In: IZA World of Labor (2017)

The literature on the economics of religion finds that increased religious participation or religious density is … risky behaviors. The literature suggests that this relationship is causal, and that the gains from religion often tend to be …. Will the positive outcomes associated with religion disappear as western societies become more secularized? …

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How state support of religion shapes attitudes toward Muslim immigrants: New evidence from a sub-national comparison

Helbling, Marc; Traunmüller, Richard - In: Comparative political studies 49 (2016) 3, pp. 391-424

through the way they regulate religion. European democracies are far from secular, and matters of religious regulation cannot … be reduced to abstract values or constitutional clauses. Under conditions of high state support of religion … democratic challenges in Europe, the quality of modern immigration societies, and the role of religion in democracy more …

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The Determinants of Religious Radicalization: Evidence from Kenya

Rink, Anselm; Sharma, Kunaal - In: Journal of Conflict Resolution 62 (2018) 6, pp. 1229-1261

A variety of theories attempt to explain why some individuals radicalize along religious lines. Few studies, however, have jointly put these diverse hypotheses under empirical scrutiny. Focusing on Muslim–Christian tensions in Kenya, we distill salient micro-, meso-, and macro-level hypotheses...

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