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The immigration-unemployment nexus : do education and Protestantism matter?

Madsen, Jakob Brøchner; Andric, Stojanka - In: Oxford economic papers 69 (2017) 1, pp. 165-188

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Randomizing religion : the impact of protestant evangelism on economic outcomes

Bryan, Gharad; Choi, James J.; Karlan, Dean - 2018

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When do religious minorities' grievances lead to peaceful or violent protest? : Evidence from Canada’s Jewish and Muslim communities

Huber, Christopher; Basedau, Matthias - GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies - 2018

Previous research has shown that minority grievances can contribute significantly to violent conflict. However, it appears that grievances do not inevitably induce religious and other minorities to engage in protest or rebellion. Moreover, relative deprivation may explain conflict but not...

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Randomizing Religion : The Impact of Protestant Evangelism on Economic Outcomes

Bryan, Gharad T. - 2018

To test the causal impact of religiosity, we conducted a randomized evaluation of an evangelical Protestant Christian values and theology education program that consisted of 15 weekly half-hour sessions. We analyze outcomes for 6,276 ultra-poor Filipino households six months after the program...

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A relação entre a proporção de protestantes e IDH nos estados do Brasil : uma abordagem ecológica

Verona, Ana Paula; Lima, Luciana Conceição de; … - Centro de Desenvolvimento e Planejamento Regional … - 2011

There is evidence that behavioral and lifestyle changes, encouraged by the Protestant churches in Brazil (especially Pentecostals and Neo-Pentecostals), are positively associated with variables such as health and income, which are, in their turn, considered into the Human Development Index (HDI)...

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The Protestant Ethic and Work: Micro Evidence from Contemporary Germany

Spenkuch, Jörg L. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

between Protestantism and attitudes toward work. Using micro-data from contemporary Germany, this paper investigates the … impact of Protestantism on economic outcomes and whether any such connection still exists. To break the endogeneity in … today, Protestantism leads to higher earnings through increased hours of work, and substantially more self …

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The Rise of the Religious Right : Evidence from the Moral Majority and the Jimmy Carter Presidency

Buccione, Giulia; Knight, Brian G. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We investigate the rise of the religious right in the context of the Moral Majority and Jimmy Carter, the first Evangelical President. During Carter's Presidency, the Moral Majority, an Evangelical group headed by televangelist Jerry Falwell, turned against the incumbent Carter, a Democrat, and...

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The Effects of the Protestant Reformation on Human Capital

Becker, Sascha O.; Woessmann, Ludger - In: The Oxford handbook of the economics of religion. 2012

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Reformation and Reallocation : Religious and Secular Economic Activity in Early Modern Germany

Cantoni, Davide - 2017

The Protestant Reformation, beginning in 1517, was a first-order economic shock. We document its effects on the sectoral allocation of economic activity in Germany using highly disaggregated data. During the Reformation, particularly in Protestant regions, large numbers of monasteries were...

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"Work for the night is coming" : how Christian Hymns frame human labor

Lynn, Monty L.; Easter, Sarah; Jessup, Ryan K.; … - In: Journal of management, spirituality & religion : JMSR 19 (2022) 5, pp. 475-504

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