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Following the attempt by Alesina and Guiliano (2013) to measure global culture and to project these measurements onto real choropleth geographical world maps, we utilize the data from the World Values Survey (WVS) to arrive at robust measurement scales of global economic, political and social...
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This article reflects the renewed interest of economics and the social science discipline in value systems and religion … ; international political economy ; religion ; bureaucracy ; corruption …
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clearly to be associated with the loss of religion (irrespective of the predominant denomination in a country): the distrust … old religion of Judaism and also Christian Protestantism emerge as the role models for other religions how to combine … religion and the traditions of the Enlightenment. Interestingly enough, also Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism and Roman Catholicism …
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At just the right moment in global history, the Anti-Defamation League of the B'nai Brith organization has released new data on antisemitism in over 100 countries. This data is based on solid opinion surveys and for the first time includes large parts of the Muslim world, not only Western...
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Ever since Goldin (1995) proposed the idea that there is a U-shaped female labor force participation rate function in economic development, empirical research is stunned by the question why the countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are characterized by such low rates of female...
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less developed civilisations often rely on informal institutions such as religion (RES). The present paper attempts to …
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speed. In the 20th century, religion played a much lesser role in daily life and income and productivity grew at high and …
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How does conflict exposure affect trust? We hypothesize that direct (firsthand) experience with conflict induces parochialism: trust towards out-groups worsens, but trust towards in-groups, owing to positive experiences of kin solidarity, may improve. Indirect exposure to conflict through...
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This paper examines the relationship between religion and home bias. We propose a simple theoretical framework that … suggests that countries interacting via their representative individuals might show a certain degree of religion …
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This article reflects the renewed interest of economics and the social science discipline in value systems and religion …, for cross-national research on religion and economic growth also shows that the “active society” of volunteer organization …
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