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Relying on a correspondence study conducted in France before the 2015 attacks, this paper compares the callback rates of immigrants of Muslim and Christian culture who originate from the same country and whose religiosity varies from non-religious to religious. Based on responses to over 6,200...
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This paper studies the effect of competition on ethnic discrimination by carrying out a field experiment in the context … competition in the marketplace, do not price discriminate against ethnic minority farmers. A second lab-in-the-field experiment … and survey information indicate that local and wholesale buyers do not have different tastes for discrimination. This …
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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 with … religion raised in seems to have no effect on pro-sociality, beyond the effect of the current measures of religiosity …
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several data sets (the International Social Survey Program - ISSP: Module Religion, 2008; the European Social Survey - ESS … religiosity and integration different in Europe and in the United States, due to historical differences in the state-religion …
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We suggest a methodology for identifying the implications of alternative cultural and social norms embodied by religious denomination on labour market outcomes, by estimating the differential impact of Protestantism versus Catholicism on the propensity to be an entrepreneur, on the basis of the...
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experiment (deworming) that has exogenously boosted education and living standards. The main finding is that the program reduces …
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moral universalism: reason and religion. Reason-based terminology correlates positively with morally universal and morally …
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We investigate the legacy of the former Papal States on modern female condition by comparing Italian municipalities located in a narrow band across the border between the former Papal States and the former Grand Duchy of Tuscany. While in the Papal States gender inequality was particularly...
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This study analyses whether the role of religion for employment of married women in Europe has changed over time and … differences by religion among young women, but not among those older than 40 years, which we attribute to an upbringing under …
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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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