Showing 51 - 60 of 22,961
Few researchers have examined the nature and determinants of earnings differentials among religious groups, and none has been undertaken in the context of conflict-prone multi-religious societies like the one in India. We address this lacuna in the literature by examining the differences in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268735
This paper presents an overlapping generations model to explain why humans live in families rather than in other pair groupings. Since most non-human species are not familial, something special must be behind the family. It is shown that the two necessary features that explain the origin of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269437
Sacrifices to deities occur in nearly all known religions. In this paper, we report on our attempts to elicit this type of religious behaviour towards Theoi in the laboratory. The theory we test is that, when faced with uncertainty, individuals attempt to engage in a reciprocal contract with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269858
This article reflects the renewed interest of economics and the social science discipline in value systems and religion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271305
An economic theory of immigration and immigrant absorption for a religious minority is developed and applied to Jewish history. Human capital is classified according to whether it is allocative or productive, transferable or location-specific, general or Jewish. Crossclassifying these categories...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272721
religion-specific human capital. It explores some implications of negative externalities between religious and secular … education. Applications include the tension between science and religion during the European Enlightenment and the development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272728
This paper provides an overview of the relationship between economics and religion. It first considers the effects of … economic incentives in the religious marketplace on consumers' demand for religion. It then shows how this demand affects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272757
The role of women in the ritual of many religions changed dramatically at the end of the 20th century, to the point where full participation by women was the norm by 2000 rather than the rarity that it had been 30 years earlier. This paper considers some aspects of the economic context that help...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272758
empirical estimation that employs data from 32 countries (included in the International Social Survey Program: Religion II …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273867
Supplements (CDS) to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). The primary focus is on the effect of religion on the reported … overall health and psychological health of the child. Three measures of religion/religiosity of the child are employed …: whether there is a religious affiliation (and what kind), the importance of religion, and the frequency of church attendance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274677