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Religion as an unemployment insurance and the basis of support for public safety nets : the case of Latin America and the Caribbean
Pecha, Camilo; Ruprah, Inder S. - 2015
This paper explores the role of religion in mitigating the degree to which unemployment reduces subjective well … method to tease out a causal relation between religion and well-being. We find that religion acts as a buffer: Unemployed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011292968
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Religion and institutions
Mladjan, Mrdjan M.; Nikolova, Elena; Ponomarenko, Olga - 2024
arise from long-term processes influenced by geography, major historical events, culture, and, less commonly, religion. This … chapter reviews the available evidence to demonstrate that religion has a strong effect on formal (laws, judicial and … attitudes towards innovation. In terms of formal institutions, there is evidence of causal effects of religious doctrines on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014580665
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Religion as an Unemployment Insurance and the Basis of Support for Public Safety Nets: The Case of Latin America and the Caribbean
Pecha, Camilo; Ruprah, Inder Jit - 2015
This paper explores the role of religion in mitigating the degree to which unemployment reduces subjective well … method to tease out a causal relation between religion and well-being. We find that religion acts as a buffer: Unemployed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011314219
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Do bishops matter for politics? Evidence from Italy
Lanzara, Gianandrea; Lazzaroni, Sara; Masella, Paolo; … - 2023
This paper studies whether and how religious leaders affect politics. Focusing on Italian dioceses in the period from 1948 to 1992, we find that the identity of the bishop in office explains a significant amount of the variation in the vote share for the Christian Democracy party (DC). This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014468646
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Skewed norms under peer pressure: Formation and collapse
Michaeli, Moti; Spiro, Daniel - 2014
This paper shows that peer pressure may lead to dynamic convergence to a norm that is skewed with respect to preferences in society, yet is endogenously upheld by the population. Moreover, a skewed norm will often be more sustainable than a representative norm. This may explain the skewness of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398478
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Strategic behavior and organizational structure in religions
Wittman, Donald A. - 2012
otherwise would be very puzzling differences in the age of appointment across religions and within a particular religion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009629015
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Skewed norms under peer pressure : formation and collapse
Michaeli, Moti; Spiro, Daniel - 2014 - This version June 2014
This paper shows that peer pressure may lead to dynamic convergence to a norm that is skewed with respect to preferences in society, yet is endogenously upheld by the population. Moreover, a skewed norm will often be more sustainable than a representative norm. This may explain the skewness of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010374440
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Earthquakes, Religion, and Transition to Self-Government in Italian Cities
Belloc, Marianna - 2016
This paper presents a unique historical experiment to explore the dynamics of institutional change in the Middle Ages. We have assembled a novel dataset, where information on political institutions for northern-central Italian cities between 1000 and 1300 is matched with detailed information on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013002947
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Do bishops matter for politics? : evidence from Italy
Lanzara, Gianandrea; Lazzaroni, Sara; Masella, Paolo; … - 2023
This paper studies whether and how religious leaders affect politics. Focusing on Italian dioceses in the period from 1948 to 1992, we find that the identity of the bishop in office explains a significant amount of the variation in the vote share for the Christian Democracy party (DC). This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013541745
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Religion and institutions
Mladjan, Mrdjan M.; Nikolova, Elena; Ponomarenko, Olga - 2024
arise from long-term processes influenced by geography, major historical events, culture, and, less commonly, religion. This … chapter reviews the available evidence to demonstrate that religion has a strong effect on formal (laws, judicial and … attitudes towards innovation. In terms of formal institutions, there is evidence of causal effects of religious doctrines on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014560191