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Fix, Blair - 2022

Among leftists, predicting the end of capitalism is a favorite parlor game. For example, as a graduate student in the 2010s, I remember discovering the 1976 edition of Marx’s Capital and being struck by the introduction. Written by the Belgian Marxist Ernest Mandel, the foreword concluded that...

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The Alabaster Ceiling: The Gender Legacy of the Papal States

Harka, Elona; Nunziata, Luca; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2021

We investigate the legacy of the former Papal States on modern female condition by comparing Italian municipalities located in a narrow band across the border between the former Papal States and the former Grand Duchy of Tuscany. While in the Papal States gender inequality was particularly...

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The Alabaster Ceiling: The Gender Legacy of the Papal States

Harka, Elona; Nunziata, Luca; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2023

We examine the gender legacy of past institutions by comparing Italian municipalities located in a narrow band across the borders between the former Papal States on the one hand, and the former Grand Duchy of Tuscany and the Duchy of Modena on the other. Our results show that a century after the...

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Love Thy Neighbor: Religion and Prosocial Behavior

Heineck, Guido - 2014

religion enhances prosocial behavior. Evidence from both survey and experimental data however yield mixed results and there is … and church attendance. Despite the historic divide in religion, results in West and East Germany do not differ …

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Love thy neighbor: Religion and prosocial behavior

Heineck, Guido - 2014

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Love thy neighbor: Religion and prosocial behavior

Heineck, Guido - 2014

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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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The impact of institutions, culture, and religion on per capita income

Dobler, Constanze - 2009

rights ; religion …

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Is religiosity of immigrants a bridge or a buffer in the process of integration? : a comparative study of Europe and the United States

García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - 2012

several data sets (the International Social Survey Program - ISSP: Module Religion, 2008; the European Social Survey - ESS … religiosity and integration different in Europe and in the United States, due to historical differences in the state-religion … mainly the function of a buffer and of "balm to the soul". -- immigration ; religion ; integration ; Europe ; United States …

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Common roots, shared traits, joint prospects? : on the articulation of multiple modernities in Benin and Haiti

Kohnert, Dirk - 2007

religion, and between different trans-national social spaces. Different innovation cultures may be complementary, mutually … African religion on development in Benin and Haiti. …

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