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The effect of behavioral codes and gender on honesty

Arbel, Yuval; Bar-El, Ronen; Siniver, Erez; Tobol, Yossi - 2014

We examine the effect of adherence to behavioral codes, as measured by the degree of religiosity, on the level of honesty by conducting under-the-cup die experiments. The findings suggest that behavioral codes, which prohibit lying, offset the monetary incentive to lie. The highest level of...

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Effects of religiosity on social behaviour : experimental evidence from a representative sample of spaniards

Brañas-Garza, Pablo; Espín, Antonio M.; Neuman, Shoshana - 2013

This study explores the effect of several personal religion-related variables on social behaviour, using three … "no religion" made decisions closer to rational selfish behaviour in the DG and the UG compared to those who affiliate … religion raised in seems to have no effect on pro-sociality, beyond the effect of the current measures of religiosity …

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Immigrants and religion

Chiswick, Carmel Ullman - 2014

the Economics of Religion and the Economics of Immigration, and distinguishes between religiosity per se and an immigrant …

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Is religion associated with entrepreneurial activity?

Henley, Andrew - 2014

activity and religious affiliation. The relationship between religion and economic development has attracted recent attention …. A positive association may indicate that religion raises the social acceptability of entrepreneurial activity, by … national boundaries between religion and entrepreneurship. Definitions of entrepreneurship are taken from the Global …

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A tale of minorities : evidence on religious ethics and entrepreneurship from Swiss census data

Nunziata, Luca; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2014

Does Protestantism favour the market economy more than Catholicism does? We provide a novel quasi-experimental way to answer this question by comparing Protestant and Catholic minorities using Swiss census data from 1970 to 2000. Exploiting the strong adhesion of religious minorities to their...

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The rise and fall of enforcement institutions : an example of religion and secularism

Ciaian, Pavel; Pokrivčák, Ján; Kancs, D'Artis - 2011

less developed civilisations often rely on informal institutions such as religion (RES). The present paper attempts to …

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Whom do people trust after a violent conflict? : experimental evidence from Maluku, Indonesia

Werner, Katharina - 2016

A long-standing - although not uncontested - view is that violent conflicts reduce average levels of trust. Other theoretical and empirical work emphasizes discriminatory effects, namely that conflicts may enhance ingroup trust and erode out-group trust. The present study combines a trust game...

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Economic freedom and religion : an empirical investigation

Hillman, Arye L.; Potrafke, Niklas - 2016

, there has been little study of the determinants of economic freedom. We investigate whether religion affects economic …

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Suicide attacks and religious cleavages

Filote, Andra; Potrafke, Niklas; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 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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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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