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Understanding the development of fundamentalism

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2002

Fundamentalist organizations and the terrorists they spawn do not arise of a vacuum. Combating terrorism requires understanding the principles of groups’ formation, development and growth. We use economic theory to explain the creation and development of fundamentalist groups. In this paper we...

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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 …

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The effect of religiosity and religious festivals on positional concerns: An experimental investigation of Ramadan

Akay, Alpaslan; Karabulut, Gökhan; Martinsson, Peter - 2011

This paper examines the effect of religion on positional concerns using survey experiments. We focus on two of the … dimensions of religion - degree of religiosity and religious festivals. By conducting the experiments during both the most …

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Social divisions in school participation and attainment in India: 1983 - 2004

Asadullah, Niaz; Kambhampati, Uma; López Bóo, Florencia - 2012

This study documents the size and nature of Hindu-Muslim and boy-girl gaps in children's school participation and attainments in India. Individual-level data from two successive rounds of the National Sample Survey suggest that considerable progress has been made in decreasing the Hindu-Muslim...

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The effect of religion on cooperation and altruistic punishment: Experimental evidence from public goods experiments

Akay, Alpaslan; Karabulut, Gökhan; Martinsson, Peter - 2011

This paper experimentally examines how religious festivals and the degree of religiosity affect cooperation and altruistic punishment by using public goods experiments. We conducted the experiments in Turkey at different points in time; one on the most religious day during Ramadan (the Night of...

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Fighting for a Kingdom of God? The Role of Religion in the Ivorian Crisis

Vüllers, Johannes - 2011

This paper analyzes the role of religion with regard to the violence experienced during the past 20 years in Côte d …'Ivoire. It seeks to explain the differences in the level of violence over time by focusing on religion as an identity marker and …-/ out-group mechanism utilized in Côte d'Ivoire in the 1990s, while the political elites tried to politicize religion. In …

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Enforcing IPR through informal institutions: The possible role of religion in fighting software piracy

Elbialy, Nora; Gouda, Moamen - 2011

violations are unethical. Religion can be considered an informal institution that might support or hinder formal laws issued with … adherence to religion is found. As the Religion-Loyalty Index (RLI) developed by this study shows, Muslim countries have the …

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The implications of cultural background on labour market choices: The case of religion and entrepreneurship

Nunziata, Luca; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2011

We suggest a methodology for identifying the implications of alternative cultural and social norms embodied by religious denomination on labour market outcomes, by estimating the differential impact of Protestantism versus Catholicism on the propensity to be an entrepreneur, on the basis of the...

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Children, spousal love, and happiness: An economic analysis

Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana; Mukhopadhyay, Sankarananda - 2012

In this paper we examine how children affect happiness and relationships within a family by analyzing two unique questions in the National Longitudinal Study of Youth's 1997 cohort. We find that (a) presence of children is associated with a loss of spousal love; (b) loss of spousal love is...

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Religious Market Theory vs. Secularization: The Role of ReligiousDiversity Revisited

Opfinger, Matthias - Universität <Hannover> / Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche … - 2011

Iannaccone’s (1991) seminal paper assigns basic market principles to the market for religion. Ina competitive market …

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