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Culture, Openness, and Finance
Williamson, Rohan - 2012
country's legal system is more important than its religion and language in explaining shareholder rights. However, a country …'s principal religion helps predict the cross-sectional variation in creditor rights better than a country's openness to … international trade mitigates the influence of religion on creditor rights. Religion and language are also important predictors of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012755967
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Segregation and the Quality of Government in a Cross-Section of Countries
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2010
This paper has three goals. The first (and perhaps the most important one) is to provide a new compilation of data on ethnic, linguistic and religious composition at the sub-national level for a large number of countries. This data set allows us to measure segregation of different ethnic,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012758382
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Does Church Attendance Cause People to Vote? Using Blue Laws' Repeal to Estimate the Effect of Religiosity on Voter Turnout
Gerber, Alan - 2010
Regular church attendance is strongly associated with a higher probability of voting. It is an open question as to whether this association, which has been confirmed in numerous surveys, is causal. We use the repeal of the laws restricting Sunday retail activity (quot;Blue lawsquot;) to measure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012758430
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Religion, Terrorism and Public Goods : Testing the Club Model
Berman, Eli - 2010
Can rational choice modeling explain why Hamas, Taliban, Hezbollah and other radical religious rebels are so lethal? The literature rejects theological explanations. We propose a club framework, which emphasizes the function of voluntary religious organizations as efficient providers of local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759639
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Insuring Consumption and Happiness Through Religious Organizations
Dehejia, Rajeev H. - 2010
blacks but smaller effects for whites. Overall, our results are consistent with the view that religion provides an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012762393
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Randomizing Religion : The Impact of Protestant Evangelism on Economic Outcomes
Bryan, Gharad - 2018
We study the causal impact of religiosity through a randomized evaluation of an evangelical Protestant Christian values and theology education program delivered to thousands of ultra-poor Filipino households. Six months after the program ended, treated households have higher religiosity and...
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Dishonest Behavior : Sin Big or Go Home
Aimone, Jason - 2019
Economic agents face many different types of economic incentives when making financial and moral decisions. We provide experimental data from a population that uniquely responds to incentives to lie compared to previously studied populations. We conduct a standard 6-sided die rolling lying study...
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Beyond the Classroom : The Implications of School Vouchers for Church Finances
Hungerman, Daniel M. - 2017
Governments have used vouchers to spend billions of dollars on private education; much of this spending has gone to religiously-affiliated schools. We explore the possibility that vouchers could create a financial windfall for religious organizations operating private schools and in doing so...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963168
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Compulsory Schooling Laws and Formation of Beliefs : Education, Religion and Superstition
Mocan, Naci H. - 2014
We exploit information on compulsory schooling reforms in 11 European countries, implemented mostly in the 1960s and 70s, to identify the impact of education on religious adherence and religious practices. Using micro data from the European Social Survey, conducted in various years between 2002...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046157
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Religion and Innovation
Bénabou, Roland - 2015
In earlier work (Bénabou, Ticchi and Vindigni 2013) we uncovered a robust negative association between religiosity and patents per capita, holding across countries as well as US states, with and without controls. In this paper we turn to the individual level, examining the relationship between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013025245