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The invisible hand plays dice : eventualities in religious markets

Poutvaara, Panu; Wagener, Andreas - 2004

Religious participation is much more widespread in the United States than in Europe, while Europeans tend to view sects more suspiciously than Americans. We propose an explanation for these patterns without assuming differences in preferences or market fundamentals. Religious markets may have...

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Manpower Constraints and Corporate Policies

D'Acunto, Francesco; Weber, Michael; Yang, Shuyao - 2021

Manpower constraints are the pervasive lack of specialized high- and low-skill workers, irrespective of the wage firms might offer. For a panel of German firms, we show manpower-constrained firms have higher capacity utilization and longer backlog of orders (measured in months). They are more...

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Medieval Anti-Semitism, Weimar Social Capital, and the Rise of the Nazi Party: A Reconsideration

Guinnane, Timothy W.; Hoffman, Philip - 2022

The persistence literature in economics and related disciplines connects recent outcomes to events long ago. This influential literature marks a promising development but has drawn criticism. We discuss two prominent examples that ground the rise of the Nazi Party in distant historical roots....

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Measuring Religion from Behavior: Climate Shocks and Religious Adherence in Afghanistan

Dube, Oeindrila; Blumenstock, Joshua E.; Callen, Michael - 2022

Religious adherence has been hard to study in part because it is hard to measure. We develop a new measure of religious adherence, which is granular in both time and space, using anonymized mobile phone transaction records. After validating the measure with traditional data, we show how it can...

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Human Capital Affects Religious Identity: Causal Evidence from Kenya

Alfonsi, Livia; Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie; … - 2023

We study how human capital and economic conditions causally affect the choice of religious denomination. We utilize a longitudinal dataset monitoring the religious history of more than 5,000 Kenyans over twenty years, in tandem with a randomized experiment (deworming) that has exogenously...

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Religion and Growth

Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2023

—together with standard growth models to frame the role of religion in economic growth. Unifying a growing literature, we argue that … religion can enhance or impinge upon economic growth through all four elements because it shapes individual preferences …, societal norms, and institutions. Religion affects physical capital accumulation by influencing thrift and financial …

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Democracy and Income In-Equality: An Empirical Analysis

Gradstein, Mark; Milanovic, Branko; Ying, Yvonne - 2001

proxied by a country's dominant religion - seems to be related to inequality. But in addition, in Judeo-Christian societies …

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Policies against Human Trafficking: The Role of Religion and Political Institutions

Potrafke, Niklas - 2013

I investigate empirically the role of religion and political institutions in policies against human trafficking, using … influence of religion on the overall 3P Anti-trafficking Policy Index is driven by protection and prevention policies. As … empirical findings regarding the association between religion, political institutions, and human development. …

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Books Go Public: The Consequences of the Expropriation of Monastic Libraries on Innovation

Buonanno, Paolo; Cinnirella, Francesco; Harka, Elona; … - 2024

Access to useful knowledge is crucial for fostering modern economic growth. We show, for the first time, that knowledge accumulated and stored in monasteries was useful for innovation. In 1866, anticlerical legislation in Italy led to the suppression of religious orders, the expropriation of...

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Qualifying religion: the role of plural identities for educational production

Boppart, Timo; Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker; … - 2008

capture conservative or progressive values in addition to the cultural characteristics language and religion. Catholic … sociocultural characteristics qualifies the role of religion for educational production. The evidence suggests that Catholicism is …

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