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Emotional numbing and lessons learned after a violent conflict - Experimental evidence from Ambon, Indonesia

Werner, Katharina; Graf Lambsdorff, Johann - 2016

Violent conflict is sometimes believed to provoke discrimination, but sometimes also seen to reduce pro-sociality in general. While discrimination may reinforce conflict, a lack of pro-sociality hinders peace reconciliation, social capital formation and development. We test which of these...

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The Rise and Fall of Enforcement Institutions: An Example of Religion and Secularism

Ciaian, Pavel; Pokrivcak, Jan; Kancs, d'Artis - 2011

less developed civilisations often rely on informal institutions such as religion (RES). The present paper attempts to …

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The labor market behavior of married women with young children in the US: Have differences by religion disappeared?

Lehrer, Evelyn Lilian; Chen, Yu - 2013

Using data from the 2006-2010 National Survey of Family Growth, conducted in the United States, we study the role of religious affiliation and participation in the labor supply behavior of non-Hispanic married women with young children. We estimate ordered probit models with a trichotomous...

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Female labour force participation in Arab countries: The role of identity

Caris, Tobias; Hayo, Bernd - 2012

We investigate why female labour market participation is low in the Arab region. Utilising Akerlof and Kranton's (2000) identity economics approach, we show in a simple gametheoretic framework that women socialised in a traditional family environment violate their identities by taking a job. In...

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The impact of institutions, culture, and religion on per capita income

Dobler, Constanze - 2009

Despite many approaches of neoclassical and endogenous growth theory, economists still face problems in explaining the reasons for income differences between countries. Institutional economics and the deep determinants of growth literature try to depart from pure economic facts to examine...

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From Worship to Worldly Pleasures: Secularization and Long-Run Economic Growth

Strulik, Holger - 2012

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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A note on ethnicity and identity among the UK born population in Understanding Society

Nandi, Alita; Platt, Lucinda - 2014

In this note we take a first look at how the UK born identify across different dimensions (ethnicity, religion …

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Bridges or buffers? Motives behind immigrants' religiosity

Garcia-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - In: IZA Journal of Migration 2 (2013), pp. 1-23

This study reviews and evaluates the motives and incentives behind immigrants' religiosity, focusing on the two sides of the Atlantic - Europe and the United States. The contribution of the study is mainly empirical, trying to identify indicators for the type of incentive - whether immigrants'...

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A Tale of Minorities: Evidence on Religious Ethics and Entrepreneurship from Swiss Census Data

Nunziata, Luca; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2014

Does Protestantism favour the market economy more than Catholicism does? We provide a novel quasi-experimental way to answer this question by comparing Protestant and Catholic minorities using Swiss census data from 1970 to 2000. Exploiting the strong adhesion of religious minorities to their...

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Effects of religiosity on social behaviour: Experimental evidence from a representative sample of Spaniards

Brañas-Garza, Pablo; Espín, Antonio M.; Neuman, Shoshana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

This study explores the effect of several personal religion-related variables on social behaviour, using three … “no religion” made decisions closer to rational selfish behaviour in the DG and the UG compared to those who affiliate … religion raised in seems to have no effect on pro-sociality, beyond the effect of the current measures of religiosity …

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